Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Henri Wadsworth Longfellow 

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.

Lewis Caroll

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

 Richard Bach

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet. But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.

Maya Angelou 
 

 Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. 

Hermann Hesse
 

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

 
Buddha
 

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

an ode to my dog PT (image on the right)

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
 
Vincent van Gogh 
 
 

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde 
 

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe 
 
 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it, is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

Kahlil Gibran

 This world is but a canvas to our imagination

Henri David Thoreau

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams
 
 

 All things change; nothing perishes.

Ovid

There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen.

Robert Frost

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

 Albert Schweitzer 
 
  

Retain from nature a certain sequence and a certain correctness in placing the tones; I study nature, so as not to do foolish things, to remain reasonable. However, I don't mind so much whether my color corresponds exactly, as long as it looks beautiful on my canvas, as beautiful as it looks in nature.

(Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo. October 1885)

 Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

When?' said the moon to the stars in the sky
'Soon' said the wind that followed them all

Nick Cave
 

 The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Albert Camus 
 
 

You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans

Indian proverb

You look at trees and label them just so,
(for trees are `trees', and growing is `to grow');
you walk the earth and tread with solemn pace
one of the many minor globes of Space:
a star's a star, some matter in a ball
compelled to courses mathematical
amid the regimented, cold, Inane,
where destined atoms are each moment slain.

Tolkien

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

Benjamin Whorf
 

The sky knows when it`s time to snow,
Don`t need to teach a seed to grow,
It`s just another ordinary miracle today.

Sarah McLaghlan

 Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

 
And how we take for granted,
That which we see every day.
That there’ll always be another dawn,
A park in which to play.

Heath Gun 

 Since I grew tired of the chase and search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face, I sail with every wind.

Friedrich Nietzsche 
 

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms

Lao Tzu

 Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

Karl Jaspers 
 
 

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.

Ann Radcliffe

 

 The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler 
 

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Lao Tzu 
 
 

Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
With the wonderful waters round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully drest.

William Brighty Rands
 

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard
 

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

D.H. Lawrence
 
 

What I tell you three times is true.

Lewis Carroll
 

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Sam Abell
 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost
 

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Frederick Buechner

I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze
that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.

William Collins

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
 

Albert Einstein

You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead
There were no birds to fly.

 Lewis Carroll

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

Ken Kesey

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Sam Abell
 

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

John Muir

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d'être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d'être, which lives on in itself.

 Andre Kertesz