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Nov 5, 2015

"To find yourself in the infinite,

You must distinguish and then combine;

Therefore my winged song thanks

The man who distinguished cloud from cloud." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Goethe's Poems for the Skies

"Since the dawn of our species, the water cycle's most visible expression in the skies --[clouds]-- has bewitched artists, poets, and scientists [...] as a beautiful natural metaphor for the philosophy that there in an inherent balance to life, that what we give will soon be replenished." Here, we read about the "singular quality of prayerfulness to clouds -- a certain secular reverence undergirding their allure to both art and science" which drew 18th century writer and poet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe to offer some deep and sincere reflections on the beauty of clouds.