A few lines by Empedocles and a few photos of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

A few lines by Empedocles and a few photos of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

All taken with a Fuji X100F

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Just like when painters

work on intricately ornamented pictures—

professionals, well skilled in their craft through

mêtis, who take special paints of various colours

in their hands and mix them with either greater

harmony or less to produce shapes and forms

resembling anything or everything, creating

trees and men and women and animals and birds

and water-nourished fish and long-lived gods

who have the highest dignity and honours—

just so, don't let deception overthrow the seat

of your awareness and make you believe that

whatever you see, all those countless numbers of

mortal beings around you, has any other source.

But know this, and know it clearly, once you have 

heard these words spoken by a god.

On Nature (frag. 23) by Empedocles

translated by Peter Kingsley