#richard jefferies

[geopsych]

You’re the Aldo Leopold of Tumblr and I appreciate your blog so dearly!

What lovely kind and frankly undeserved praise! Thank you. I wish I had his passion and his way with words. But I appreciate the sentiment and I'm happy if my blog encourages anyone to appreciate nature a little more or even just to take a walk. You can go out and look at a flower and it isn't pixels. The light goes from the sun to the flower and then to your eyes. You can reach out and touch an actual petal with your finger. Some scent molecules go straight from the flower to the detectors in your nose. You can walk around it and see it from different sides. Come back another time and the light might be different or raindrops and dew might be shining on the petals. A bee might be taking nectar and you're the only one seeing it. At times it can feel miraculous. To take it a little farther I'll quote Richard Jefferies: “It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.” Okay it isn't always like that but when it is...wow! Anyway, thank you!

[essentialmoviegifs]

Blood Tide (1982, dir. Richard Jefferies)

[theopenair]

What colour is this dandelion? It is not yellow, nor orange, nor gold; put a sovereign on it and see the difference. […] Perhaps, if ten people answered this question, they would each give different answers. Again, a bright day or a cloudy, the presence of a slight haze, or the juxtaposition of other colours, alters it very much; for the dandelion is not a glazed colour, like the buttercup, but sensitive. It is like a sponge, and adds to its own hue that which is passing, sucking it up.

‘Nature and Books’, Field and Hedgerow

[noverim-te]

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

―Richard Jefferies, 'The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography'

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“The sun had not yet stood out from the orient, but his precedent light shone through the translucent blue. Yet it was not blue, nor is there any word, nor is a word possible to convey the feeling unless one could be built up of signs and symbols like those in the book of the magician, which glowed and burned to and fro the page. For the blue of the precious sapphire is thick to it, the turquoise dull, these hard surfaces are no more to be compared to it than sand and gravel. They are but stones, hard, cold, pitiful, that which gives them their lustre is the light. Through delicate porcelain sometimes the light comes, and it is not the porcelain, it is the light that is lovely. But porcelain is clay, and the light is shorn, checked, and shrunken. Down through the beauteous azure came the Light itself, pure, unreflected Light, untouched, untarnished even by the dew-sweetened petal of a flower, descending, flowing like a wind, a wind of glory sweeping through the blue. A luminous purple glowing as Love glows in the cheek, so glowed the passion of the heavens. Two things only reach the soul. By touch there is indeed emotion. But the light in the eye, the sound of the voice! the soul trembles and like a flame leaps to meet them. So to the luminous purple azure his heart ascended.” ― Richard Jefferies, Bevis

[alive on all channels]

[brokehorrorfan]

The Vagrant will be released on Blu-ray on February 7 via Arrow Video. Robert Hack designed the new cover art for the 1992 horror comedy film; the original art is on the reverse side.

Special effects great Chris Walas (Gremlins, The Fly) directs from a script by Richard Jefferies (Cold Creek Manor, Man of the House). Bill Paxton stars with Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, and Colleen Camp.

The Vagrant has been newly restored in 2k from the original camera negative with original lossless stereo 2.0 audio. Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Interview with director Chris Walas (new)

Interview with actor Marshall Bell (new)

Interview with actor Michael Ironside (new)

Interview with actress Colleen Camp (new)

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Booklet written by film critic Chris Hallock and Vagrant super-fan James Pearcey (first pressing only)

Mild-mannered financial clerk Graham Krakowski (Bill Paxton) buys a run-down starter home only to discover a vagrant, living in the empty lot across the street, keeps appearing inside. Attempts to remove the homeless man lead to a feud that spirals out of control and tests Graham’s sanity as the vagrant engages him in twisted mind games, defiling his home, and framing him for gruesome murders.

Pre-order The Vagrant.

[along-the-meadow-path]

Richard Jefferies, The Pageant of Summer

[pithia]

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

Richard Jefferies