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stormsewerHere are my favorites of the pictures I took on Yakushima, which I do believe is my favorite of all the places in Japan I've been thus far. In fact, I'd say it's a top contender for the most beautiful place I've ever been. (The only other place that comes to mind as a possibility is Zion's National Park.) Apparently forests like these were once much more widespread, but nowadays it's pretty well limited to this island. These forests were the inspiration for those in Princess Mononoke, and you definitely get the feeling that you're in the presence of an arcane and eldritch primeval power when you're there. They say that if you touch the trees there, you can feel the energy of the spirits within.
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.” -Jack Kerouac
(Here's me, looking 12 years old, as always:)
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.” -Jack Kerouac
(Here's me, looking 12 years old, as always:)
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Date: 2005-10-25 04:20 pm (UTC)Anyway, I had no idea that places really looked like that. Seriously, I can't believe it's real.
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Date: 2005-10-26 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 05:02 pm (UTC)And that is some lush scenery! Makes me long for a proper forest. I think it's time for a weekend road trip to find sequoias or redwoods or something.
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Date: 2005-10-26 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 12:05 am (UTC)I love those pictures of you against the backdrop of something grand. It's really like that gnome in Amelie, and it amuses me!
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Date: 2005-11-01 06:30 am (UTC)And actually that gnome was kind of the inspiration for those shots. I don't take many pictures of myself, but everytime I go someplace noteworthy I try to get one shot of myself somewhere there. One of my friends once compared me to Travelling Matt in Fraggle Rock, which comparison I absolutely love.
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Date: 2005-11-07 03:32 pm (UTC)I should visit those beautiful places.
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Date: 2005-11-08 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
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