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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:41:35 -0500

"Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. It can spontaneously arise at..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:31:25 -0500

“Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. It can spontaneously arise at any moment given the right circumstances, point of view and context. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace. It can be a rousing symphonic climax, or just the way the light catches the edge of a rusty old trash can. To seek beauty is to have the willingness, the inclination and the impetuous desire for this chance encounter to transpire. IF you look at history, great art expands the way we see; uplifting the human spirit from the barbaric and thrusting it toward the numinous.”

- Director of the Imaginary Foundation

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Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:56:46 -0500

Emerald Canyon

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:32:49 -0500

Emerald Canyon

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Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:59:42 -0500

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Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:43:15 -0500

Jitka Hanzlová, Appearing Light, 2004. From the series ‘Forest’...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:28:23 -0500

Jitka Hanzlová, Appearing Light, 2004. From the series ‘Forest’ c-print 26.7 x 17.8 cm 10 1/2 x 7 inches

"I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am..."

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:24:28 -0500

“I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me—and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.”

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:38:50 -0500

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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:39:31 -0500

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:56:16 -0500

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

- Vincent Van Gogh

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Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:21:14 -0400

Palau

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:15:46 -0400

Palau

"But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:43:39 -0400

“But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see.”

- Ed Abbey

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Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:18:02 -0400

"Like an explosion awaiting a spark, unimaginably numerous environments in the universe are waiting..."

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:14:00 -0400

“Like an explosion awaiting a spark, unimaginably numerous environments in the universe are waiting out there, for aeons on end, doing nothing at all or blindly generating evidence and storing it up or pouring it out into space. Almost any of them would, if the right knowledge ever reached it, instantly and irrevocably burst into a radically different type of physical activity: intense knowledge-creation, displaying all the various kinds of complexity, universality and reach that are inherent in the laws of nature, and transforming that environment from what is typical today into what could be typical tomorrow. If we want to, we could be that spark.”

- David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity

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Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:30:15 -0400

"And while every organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such..."

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:03:28 -0400

“And while every organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such organisms, human bodies (including their brains) are factories for transforming anything into anything the laws of nature allow. They are ‘universal constructors’.”

- David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity

Photography by Cole Thompson

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:38:13 -0400

Photography by Cole Thompson

"But if man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,..."

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:15:00 -0400

“But if man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)