“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
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Lois Gladys Leppard (1924–2008) American writer
Source: Mandie and the Courtroom Battle
“Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu
Act v, Scene iii.
Richelieu (1839)
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
"Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre," in Goethes Sämmtliche Werke, vol. 7 (Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1874), p. 520
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
[38] "Alone Looking at the Mountain"
Variant translations:
The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
"Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Sam Hamill
Flocks of birds fly high and vanish;
A single cloud, alone, calmly drifts on.
Never tired of looking at each other—
Only the Ching-t'ing Mountain and me.
"Sitting Alone in Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Irving Y. Lo
