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Motto:
The ore of the philosophers is dropsical and wants to be washed seven times in the river, just as Naaman, the leper, washed in the Jordan.
Epigram:
The sick ore of the Wise is entirely swollen by dropsy,
And therefore it yearns for the benefiting waters.
Just as Naaman expelled the traces of leprosy in the Jordan,
It is washed by its waters three and four times:
So throw your body into the sweet water
And soon that will bring the strength of health in cases of disease.
My wife likes this image because she thinks it represents me well. Half black, half white, or as she puts it half philosopher and half clown.
Philosopher’s Wood was originally laid out in the late17th century as a sequence of formal ponds and lakes to the west of the original Hall.
The platforms and changes in level still survive in the undergrowth, as do the skeletal
remains of the ponds and the island, still linked by ramped earthworks or dams, connected
underground by pipes. Some water still trickles through the site from the original spring-fed
supply.
A ceremony to commemorate the 2,565th anniversary of the birth of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius was held at the over-700-year-old Confucius Temple in Beijing, Sept 28, 2014.
Along the path we ran into this example of a modern rendering of a classical Tang style gate. Lovely.
Philosopher Falls - 9km's from the township of Waratah. Philosopher Falls was named after James "Philosopher" Smith, who discovered Tin in the Waratah area in 1871