January 2012
2 posts
“Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. It can...”
– Director of the Imaginary Foundation
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
7 posts
“I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call...”
– Henri-Frederic Amiel
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes...”
– Vincent Van Gogh
October 2011
2 posts
“But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond...”
– Ed Abbey
September 2011
4 posts
“Like an explosion awaiting a spark, unimaginably numerous environments in the...”
– David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity
“And while every organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type...”
– David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity
August 2011
8 posts
5 tags
“But if man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)
6 tags
“When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.”
– Mark Strand, from “Seven Poems”
“We’re in a freefall into future. We don’t know where we’re...”
– Joseph Campbell
July 2011
4 posts
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with...”
– Hemingway, from The Old Man and the Sea
“When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.”
– Martin Amis
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...”
– Bertrand Russell
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
June 2011
4 posts
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,...”
– Anne Frank
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is...”
– Denis Waitley
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing...”
– Pythagoras of Samos
May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
3 posts
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
– Walt Whitman
“You are infinite, excepting the infant that is your consciousness.”
– tobo
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted...”
– John Muir
March 2011
4 posts
“To see is to forget
the name of the
thing one sees.”
– Paul Valery, Poet / Philosopher (1871 - 1945). Thanks to the Tao of Photography.
February 2011
6 posts
“By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter...”
– Bill Bryson (via wearebasiclight)
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in...”
– Octavio Paz