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Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Sociedad de Apreciación de las Nubes.

Contraportada de La Vanguardia - 10-01-08

Pregunta: Alain, el magnífico filósofo francés, recomendaba mirar a lo lejos ¿y usted?

-Mire hacia arriba cada día porque eso le ayudará a tener los pies en el suelo. Los tristes y agobiados siempre miran sus pies. Cuando miras para arriba, abres tus pulmones y oxigenas la mente y el cuerpo. Y mirar hacia arriba te ayuda a tener mejor perspectiva sobre tu vida en la tierra.

Ahir al matí, els núvols eren d'un vermell espectacular.
Cada dia miro enlaire, cada dia descobreixo alguna cosa nova...
M'agraden els núvols.

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned
and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry,

and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at

cloudless monotony day after day.

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the
atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of
a person’s countenance.

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.
They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save
on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

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“I love the clouds… the clouds that pass…
up there… up there… the wonderful clouds!”
[The Stranger, Charles Baudelaire]