Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
And all sad sounds are nature’s funeral cries
For what has been and is not.
George Eliot
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Snow Canyon
Ivins, Utah
Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
And all sad sounds are nature’s funeral cries
For what has been and is not.
George Eliot
Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,
And all sad sounds are nature’s funeral cries
For what has been and is not.
George Eliot
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Flower
Los Angeles, California
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Brahma Shrine
Las Vegas, Nevada
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead
Getty Center Garden
Los Angeles, California
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life....Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
Vita Sackville-West
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life....Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
Vita Sackville-West
Foothills
Los Angeles, California
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Monday, December 06, 2004
Getty Center Purple Flower
Los Angeles, California
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us.
Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing.
Just once; no more.
And we too, just once.
And never again.
But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, 9th, 1923
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us.
Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing.
Just once; no more.
And we too, just once.
And never again.
But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, 9th, 1923
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Friday, December 03, 2004
Getty Center Bird of Paradise
Los Angeles
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Century City Skyline
Century City, California
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Getty Center View
Los Angeles
Sound swallowed away, no waters, no mountains, no bush, no grass and because no grass no shade but your shadow. Not flatness because no not-flatness. No loss, no gain. So-- nothing in the way!
Gary Snyder
Finding the Space in the Heart
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Sound swallowed away, no waters, no mountains, no bush, no grass and because no grass no shade but your shadow. Not flatness because no not-flatness. No loss, no gain. So-- nothing in the way!
Gary Snyder
Finding the Space in the Heart
Mountains and Rivers Without End
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