The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees so invariably that one has to come to think of them as the attire of cherry blossoms; there were no bustling tea-stalls, no holiday crowds of flower-viewers, no one hawking balloons and toy windmills; instead there were only the cherry trees blossoming undisturbed among the evergreens, making one feel as though he were seeing the naked bodies of the blossoms. Nature's free bounty and useless extravagance had never appeared so fantastically beautiful as it did this spring. I had an uncomfortable suspicion that Nature had come to reconquer the earth for herself. .Yukio Mishima
About This Quote
Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote this after viewing cherry blossoms for the first time. His story, "The Cherry-Blossom Viewing", has inspired people for decades with its message of the beauty of nature amid the chaos of human life. It is a positive message about finding beauty in the world despite its imperfections.
Source: Confessions Of A Mask
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