The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

high places

A photograph of a somewhat smokey view from up a mountain somewhere, looking through the silhouettes of some large evergreens to the early morning light shining on a distant ridge

Senes hieme velut oves aprica petant, aestate velut aves amoena rivosque revisant. Frequenter inter virentes versentur plantas et suaviter redolentes, hae namque viventes spirantesque conspirant ad spiritum hominis augendum.

In winter, let old people like sheep seek places exposed to the sun; in summer, let them like birds revisit the pleasant places and rivers. Let them dwell continually among green and sweet-smelling plants; for these living and breathing things conspire [pun] to augment the human spirit.

—Marsilio Ficino (Three Books on Life [PDF link], 1 trans. Carol V. Kaske, II.12)

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