Figure of a man in a coffin, Italy, 1501-1600
Carved from wood, this figure shows a male corpse inside a coffin. The body is in advanced decay and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori. This is an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life and the inevitability of death.
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The gamekeeper at dusk on a cold winter’s day, 1889, William Fraser Garden (1856 - 1921)
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Detail of The Life of Saint Dymphna (1505) by Goswin van der Weyden
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“Thoreau says “give me a wildness no civilization can endure.” That’s clearly not difficult to find. It is harder to imagine a civilization that wildness can endure, yet this is what we must try to do. Wildness is not just the “preservation of the world”, it is the world. Civilizations East and West have long been on a collision course with wild nature, and now the developed nations in particular have the witless power to destroy individual creatures, whole species, whole processes, of the earth.”— Gary Snyder - The Etiquette of Freedom