{"id":10064,"date":"2026-08-13T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:01:43","slug":"the-enchantment-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10064","title":{"rendered":"The Enchantment of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Beck7-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love is the enchantment of the world.  When we love the world, every grain of it, it shines like transfiguration.  Love, as Tolkien said, helps us recover the world, turns everything into a fairy tale.  Every leaf, every ray of light.  Animals and plants.  Mead and good music.  The kiss of rain on your skin.  The face of a friend and loved one.  It all becomes magical.  Even the eels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Beck, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hunting_magic_eels.html\">Hunting Magic Eels<\/a><\/em>, p. 233<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tide coming in, Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, June 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is the enchantment of the world. When we love the world, every grain of it, it shines like transfiguration. Love, as Tolkien said, helps us recover the world, turns everything into a fairy tale. Every leaf, every ray of light. Animals and plants. Mead and good music. The kiss of rain on your skin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delight","category-joy","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}