A collection of quotes bouncing around in my head at the moment, paired with some of my photography. May they inspire you too.
A collection of quotes bouncing around in my head at the moment, paired with some of my photography. May they inspire you too.
Photo: Kings Creek, Lassen Volcanic National Park.
“I know the joy of fishes
In the river
Through my own joy,
As I go walking
Along the same river."
― Chuang Tzu
Photo: Some live oaks at Mt. Diablo, California.
"I am coherent, mysterious, and solid. I sit on dirt in sunlight between the live oaks. Once I was a sun, again I will be dark. Now I am between those great things for a while along with other people, here in the Valley."
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
Photo: A weft fern (Crepidomanes intricatum), which is gametophyte-only and therefore one of the thinnest ferns.
"Como dicen los sabios, el hombre
sensato se ocupa de su huerto;
el cobarde, del oro; el justo, de su ciudad;
el loco, del gobierno; y el sabio,
del espesor de las hojas de los helechos."
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial
"As the wise say, a sensible man
is concerned with his garden;
a coward, money; a just man, his city;
a crazy man, the government; and the wise,
with the thickness of fern fronds."
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial
Photo: The flora of Kelso Peak, in the Bright Star Wilderness, California.
"Ond un hwyr o haf fe wrthododd fod yn
fynydd. Aeth yn fflamiau a dangos ei liwiau,
a’r cwbl ohono’n torri allan yn grugiau o
gyneddfau porffor a gwyrdd, yn gruglwythi
galluoedd glas a phinc,
yn garneddau o rymusterau coch a du.
O’i weld felly ni allwn ond synnu,
gan faint y rhyfeddodau a welwn yn y tân.
Mae yna ryfeddodau mewn bywyd..."
― Euros Bowen, Arenig
"But late one summer's eve, she refused to
remain a mountain. Ablaze, she bared her true
colors, and broke out all over in cairns of
purple and green virtues, masses
of blue and pink powers;
mounds of black and red forces.
And seeing her that way I could but stand and
stare, so vast were the wonders I saw in the fire.
There are wonders in life…"
― Euros Bowen, Arenig
Photo: Prairie smoke (Geum triflorum), in Banff National Park, Canada.
"O, the wild rose blossoms
On the little green place."
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Photo: The serpentine grasslands at Ring Mountain, California.
"Nothing comes from nothing but there's nowhere else to start.
There's a raven in the rafters and he's aiming for your heart.
There's a way of congregating where you give someone your hand
& keep the other one wide open for whoever else comes in."
― Haley Hendrickx & Max García Conover; Buffalo, 1981