Philosophical
What if paying attention is the most radical thing you can do?
There's a difference between glancing at a bird and actually watching it. Between walking past a pond and noticing how light moves across it. Mary Oliver spent her entire life in that gap, and she believed it was the most important place a person could stand.
Attention is the beginning of devotion.— Mary Oliver, *Upstream*
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The thinker
Poet of the Natural World
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet whose work centered on close observation of nature and the moral weight of paying attention.
Based on Upstream: Selected Essays — Mary Oliver, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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