作品描述

There’s something about the forests of Northern America that is particularly mysterious and alluring. The creatures live life moving through the forests and mountains, the days and seasons, the shifts of day into night and night into day. The most active times for many animals are at dawn and dusk, which also is the time when the light is unclear and details are often obscured by mists, making the movement of the animals almost feel like spirits coming and going at the edge of reality. You can follow them, but they will elude you, or you can sit in stillness and wait for them to come to you, savoring the short but lasting experience of touching their presence.

Once when I was a child I was waiting for the bus to go to school, it was a very foggy morning, I could only see about 3 meters in front of me, and as I stood waiting, all the world silent and obscured around me, suddenly a blue heron swept out of the mist, flying low, arching toward me and then away back into the mist, leaving only the swirling of the fog as evidence of its momentary touch to my life. This image has stayed with me as a deep impression of the things that can be experienced if we take the time to be silent and still in the natural world. These experiences are becoming fewer and farther in-between in this modern world, but whether or not to have them is a CHOICE that we can all make, though it is not in our nature to stop and wait for them to come to us in the course of time.

北美的森林有一些特别神秘和诱人的感觉，那里的动物在森林和山脉、季节的轮回、白天到黑夜和黑夜到白天的转变中生活。许多动物活动的时间是黎明和黄昏，这也是光线不清晰，细节经常被雾气遮蔽的时间，让动物的运动几乎感觉像是灵魂在现实边缘来来往往。你可以跟随他们，但他们会躲开你，或者你可以静静地坐着，等待他们来到你身边，享受触碰他们的存在的短暂而持久的体验。

小时候有一天黎明时分，我在等校车，那天早上雾气很大，我只能看到前方3米左右，当我站在那里等待的时候，周围的世界都变得寂静而模糊，突然，一只蓝色的苍鹭从雾中掠出，低飞，向我弓起，然后又回到雾中，只留下雾的漩涡作为它对我生命的短暂接触的证据。这画面给我留下了深刻的印象，让我明白了，如果我们愿意保持一段时间的沉默并留在自然世界中，可以体验到多么神奇的事物。在这个现代世界中，人越来越少遇到这种类似的经历，但是否拥有它们是我们所有人都可以做出的选择，尽管我们的本性不是很容易停下来随着时间的推移等待它们来到我们身边。