No One’s Gonna Love You
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It’s the balance between two beauties. The chill beauty of approaching winter, when the living world withdraws into itself and everything is distilled to its purest form. The tree sheds the luxury of leaves, the grass relinquishes its green, and the water retreats behind a barrier of ice. What’s left is a lean beauty, a simple and untainted heart-kernel of clarity.
And there is the counter-balancing beauty of the human body. As nature sloughs off what isn’t necessary to survive, people find it necessary to cover our natural selves to survive. We wrap ourselves in clothing, then wrap the clothing in still more clothing. Nonetheless, as we see here, beauty still finds a way to radiate.
When winter fades and summer comes, nature and humankind will once again swap stances. Nature will cover itself in leaves and grass, and people will shuck off as much outerwear as possible. It’s the balance between two beauties. Somehow, no matter what we do, no matter what nature does, beauty always remains.
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