Traversing Landscapes of Knowledge:Reflections on Writing My Essay Summing Up the World View and Language of Nimi Wariboko
Cover Image Majestic space evokes majestic mind exemplified by the questing figure in the painting by Nicholas Roerich, painter extraordinaire of the conjunction between sublime landscapes and uncompromising spiritual aspiration dramatised by Asian contemplative, hermit and monastic cultures, an orientation incidentally evoked by English poet Gerald Manley Hopkins' awed recognition in " No worst, there is none " that the "mind has mountains; cliffs of fall/ Frightful, sheer, no-man fathomed. Hold them cheap/ May who ne'er hung there." The resonance of the eloquent power of outward geographies with the elevating sonorities of inward landscapes of aspiration is Roerich's mo...