Yet I've seen many a collier stand in his back garden looking down at a flower with that odd, remote sort of contemplation which shows a real awareness of the presence of beauty.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
In this quiet but compelling novel, Trond Sander, a widower nearing seventy, moves to a bare house in remote eastern Norway, seeking the life of quiet contemplation that he has always longed for.
His refuge may be remote, but it's certainly not intended for solitary contemplation.
As you picture the scene, you might think that the researcher in question, Manuela Dal Borgo, deep in contemplation of these ancient musings, is in a place as remote from the recession-shaken realities of the 21st century as it is possible to find.
As things are, the psychological theory of the Phaedo assigns Socrates' contemplation directly to his soul, but leaves his desire for food curiously remote from it, apparently taking 'bodily' desire (for instance) to be related to the soul in much the same way in which the operations involved in (say) metabolism and growth are so related.
Justine Jordan wrote in the Guardian : "In this dazzling tale of progress in miniature, Yves Gundron, yeoman farmer of the remote village Mandragora, asks us to imagine the aeons of undifferentiated time before technology gave humankind leisure for desire, contemplation, travel and doubt".
Theodore made an unsuccessful attempt at farming in East Anglia and then spent the rest of his life in semi-seclusion in a succession of remote villages in Dorset, where he married a local girl and devoted himself to a life of writing and contemplation.
BUT I knew that since he generally postpones even the contemplation of packing until the plane is at the gate, the chance of his shopping for luggage was highly remote.
Contemplation Environments.
