{"id":427,"date":"2014-05-13T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2014-11-07T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:14:10","slug":"in-the-garden-of-eden-writes-john-stewart-collis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/in-the-garden-of-eden-writes-john-stewart-collis\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Garden of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Garden of Eden<\/h1>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Worm Forgives the Plough, by John Stewart Collis (Vintage Classics edition)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I turn off the road, enter the wood, and sit down under the tree. The sun gleams upon everything, there is glittering and shining everywhere. A green caterpillar is lowered down by an invisible thread in front of me, and as it swings about, the sun shines through its transparency… A bush over there is glittering with rain-drops, little white lanterns fastened to the lower side of twigs; but if I swing my head slightly to one side, some of those lights turn colour, becoming red and purple…<\/p>\n

We have invented a word for it: beauty. I am surrounded here with law, order, and beauty, and am myself absolutely happy here… I begin to grasp the obvious fact that this place is \u2014 perfect. And suddenly I realize where I am! I am in the Garden of Eden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014John Stewart Collis, The Worm Forgives the Plough<\/em>. Vintage, 2009. pages 232-233.<\/p>\n

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In the Garden of Eden I turn off the road, enter the wood, and sit down under the tree. The sun gleams upon everything, there is glittering and shining everywhere. A green caterpillar is lowered down by an invisible thread in front of me, and as it swings about, the sun shines through its transparency… … Continue reading In the Garden of Eden<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[239,200],"tags":[234,238,235,207,236,237],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-love-of-nature","category-quotation","tag-beauty","tag-caterpillar","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-john-stewart-collis","tag-tree","tag-wood","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}