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Hockney, David - Spring
Identifier
014378
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Every time we get the spring I get thrilled like that. Here we’ve noticed – and it takes you two or three years to notice – there’s a moment when spring is full. We call it ‘nature’s erection’. Every single plant, bud and flower seems to be standing up straight. Then gravity starts to pull the vegetation down. It was the second year I noticed that; the third, you notice even more. At the height of the summer, the trees become a mass of foliage, and the branches are pulled down by the weight. When it falls off they’ll start going up again. This is the sort of thing you notice if you are looking carefully. The fascination just grew for me here. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.
The source of the experience
Hockney, DavidConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Smoke inhalationSuppressions
Communing with natureLOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am