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An evening by the Fault

An evening by the Fault
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone
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When I am enchanted with a landscape, I know very well that it is not I who create it, but I also know that without me the relations which are established before my eyes among the trees, the foliage, the earth, and the grass would not exist at all. I know that I can give no reason for the appearance of finality which I discover in the assortment of hues and in the harmony of the forms and movements created by the wind. Yet, it exists; there is before my eyes, and I can make something more out of what I already there. But even if I believe in God, I cannot establish any passage, unless it is purely verbal, between the divine, universal solicitude and the particular spectacle which I am considering. To say that H made the landscape in order to charm me or that he made me the kind of person who is pleased by it is to take a question for an answer. . . . The idea of a universal providence is no guarantee of any particular intention, especially in the case under consideration, since the green of the grass is explained by biological laws, specific constants, and geographical determinism, while the reason for the blue of the water is accounted for ny the depth of the river, the nature of the soil and the swiftness of the current. The assorting of the shades, if it is willed, can only be something thrown into the bargain; it is the meeting of two casual series, that is to say, at first sight, a fact of chance. At best, the finality remains problematic…. ~ Page 59
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