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“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.�� �� Khalil Gibran “Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.�� �� Robert Frost “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.�� �� Jane […]

Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish […]

Between heaven and earth, between mankind and the stars, lies the kingdom of trees; between that which gives us food, housing and work on the one hand and that which is incomprehensible and unaccountable on the other. –Trees in the History of Civilization Trees are SentinelsGuarding, Nurturing, ProtectingBastions of DignityBreathing lifeProviding shelterAsking for nothingSacrificing everything […]

Red has always been my color because red stands out. Red is one of the strongest colors, its blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well�� In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.�� Keith Haring Red is the greatest clarifier […]

Devotion requires action. It’s more than a feeling.It’s an act that demonstrates one’s commitment to something greater than themselves. “The stronger our devotion, the greater the blessings. But to have no devotion is like hiding oneself in a house with all the doors and shutters closed. The sunlight will never get in.�� �� Dilgo Khyentse […]

Since the weather is to people what the waters are to fish, their preoccupation with it serves a unique purpose, constituting a social phenomenon all its own. The boat sails on, buffeted by the winds, tossed by the waters, drenched by the heavens—its inhabitants subject not only to the physical effects of the weather but […]

“Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma.”�� Anthony Bourdain “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”�� J.R.R. Tolkien  “Food, to me, is always about cooking and […]

“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.�� �� Henry Drummond “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.  There is a time for silence.  A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces […]

“Time, which changes people,does not alter the image we have of them.”�� Marcel Proust “Lost time is never found again.”�� Benjamin Franklin “Time has a wonderful way of showingus what really matters.”�� Margaret Peters Time is free, but it’s priceless.You can’t own it, but you can use it.You can’t keep it, but you can spend […]

Most of my pictures are grounded in people.I look for the unguarded moment, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape that iscalled the human condition.�� Steve McCurry What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and […]