Archive for the ‘Quote’ Category

End Of The Trail   Leave a comment

End of Blackett’s Ridge Trail — Image by kenne

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.
Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

— Louis L’Amour

We All Depend Upon Each Other   2 comments

Desert Walk — Image by kenne

We all depend upon each other, plants, and animals, not to mention the life-bestowing conglomerates:
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Every living person is part of a give-and-take network that entails considerable suffering
as well as joy. This largely mysterious ambiance constitutes nature as experienced by—and affected by—you and me.

— Alexander Eliot

Sedona Tourists   1 comment

Sedona Tourists — Image by kenne

Intolerance is the father of illusion and evil deeds.
Tolerance is not its opposite; tolerance is neutral.
The opposite of intolerance is creative imagination,
sympathetically exercised in the service of ever-illusive truth.

— Alexander Eliot

Big Smile, Say Cheese   2 comments

Big Smile, Say Cheese (Red Rock Canyon) — Image by kenne

“Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing,
it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.”

— from Who Moved The Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

 

Breaking With Tradition   Leave a comment

Nags Head Outer Banks, NC — Image by kenne

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.


— James Agee

Solitary Digger Bee   1 comment

Solitary Digger Bee — Image by kenne

“The solitary Bee
whose buzzing was the
only sound of life,
flew there on restless wing,
Seeking in vain
one blossom where to fix.”

— Robert Southey

Sedona, Red Rock Country   Leave a comment

Sedona, Red Rock Country — Image by kenne

“Armchair complaints do not leave your living room,

so fight for justice, question, protest, criticize, write

and read letters, poetry, songs, speeches, sermons or legislation.

The arc of history tends toward justice, but you must bend it.”

— Christopher Fox Graham (Managing Editor of the Sedona Red Rock News)

 

 

The Raven   6 comments

The Raven — Image by kenne

“Deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering,
fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Springtime On The Trail   6 comments

Springtime On The Trail — Image by kenne

“They’ll look for you in a field of roses,
having never really known you at all.
For you’ll never be found in a perfectly tendered garden,
you’re an untameable wildflower in this wild world.”

— Nikki Rowe

Lazy Photographer Framing The Image   3 comments

“One doesn’t stop seeing.
One doesn’t stop framing.
It doesn’t turn off and turn on.
It’s on all the time.”

— Annie Leibovitz

A Cavern In Arches National Park   Leave a comment

A Cavern In Arches National Park — Image by kenne

“There is nothing so American as our national parks …
the fundamental idea behind the parks …
is that the country belongs to the people,
that it is in the process of making for the
enrichment
of the lives of all of us.”

— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Sonoran Desert Connects You To The World   2 comments

Sutherland Trail In Catalina State Park — HDR Image by kenne

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

— John Muir

Galveston Island Seagull   Leave a comment

Galveston Island Seagull — Image by kenne

“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight,
l
imited by nothing at all”

— Richard Bach
 
 

Desert Poppies   2 comments

Desert Poppies (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Images by kenne

“A desert is a place without expectation.”

— Nadine Gordimer

The Loneliest Road In America   Leave a comment

C&A Cattle Company Mailbox On The “Loneliest Road In America” (U.S. Route 50 In Nevada) — Photo-artistry by kenne

“I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.”

— Joni Mitchell