Not easy to think of a lot to say about the horizon, at least until you stumble upon the evocative writing on the topic by prolific author and poet David Whyte.
Whyte’s writing encapsulates insights about our quest to sail and explore the world beyond the horizon.
What is it that drives our fascination with what might lie around the next bend in the road, around the next headland, or over the horizon? Is it a primal urge to search of food or more hospitable living environment that drives us to travel in search of what is beyond our current field of knowing? Or is it a more fundamental urge to explore the unknown, the mysterious, the exotic?
“Whats beautiful about the horizon is what lies beyond it”.
“Horizon is the line between what we think we know and what we do not know, between what we think we see and do not see: horizons mark the threshold between the world that I inhabit and the one that seems to wait for me, between a world I can almost understand and what lies beyond the imagination of my present life. Horizons are creative, disturbing, invitational edges just by the fact that they exist”.
If you’re not familiar with David Whyte’s work catch his poems and essays on his Substack
davidwhyte.substack.com/p/horizons
