Archive for the ‘Quote’ Category

Santa Fe Sculpture   Leave a comment

Santa Fe Sculpture (Humankind) — Image by kenne

“Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it.
It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear.
In this way, it will eventually destroy itself.
But nature will survive; at least the plants will.”

Brian L. Weiss

Mourning Doves Looking For A Nest Building Place   1 comment

Mourning Doves Looking For A Nest Building Place — Image by kenne

“The mourning dove is a carrier of faith and love. Whenever I am faced with the storms of life,
I don’t have to fret because peace and protection are assured.

This peaceful spirit can call upon the tranquillity around me in times of stress or uncertainty.”

Poppies Are Popping   Leave a comment

Poppies are Popping In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne

I dream of a quiet man
who explains nothing and defends
nothing, but only knows
where the rarest wildflowers
are blooming, and who goes,
and finds that he is smiling
not by his own will.

— Wendell Berry

Tucson Folk Festival   Leave a comment

Tucson Folk Festival (2013) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

— Edward Abbey

Cooper’s Hawk Photo-Artistry   1 comment

Cooper’s Hawk — Photo-Artistry by kenne

And I say to any man or woman, 

Let your soul stand cool and composed

Before a million universes. 

— Walt Whitman

Doubtful Canyon Tree   Leave a comment

Doubtful Canyon Tree — Image by kenne

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.

— Anton Chekhov

Festival Food   Leave a comment

Festival Food — Image by kenne

As a rule, for no one does life drag

more disagreeably than for him

who tries to speed it up.

— Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

Her Mother’s Nuns   Leave a comment

‘Her Mother’s Nuns’ — Art by Katie Turner Bailey
(This art was a gift from Kate in 1999 and still hangs on one of our walls. This is a digital copy of her original art.)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

― Pablo Picasso

Roadrunner Art   2 comments

Roadrunner Art by kenne

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me,

there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

Painted Lady Butterfly   Leave a comment

Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

— Lao Tzu

Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King   Leave a comment

Three Little Guys Looking Up To The King — Image by kenne

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

— Lao Tzu

A Tucson Sunset   Leave a comment

A Tucson Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

Thimble Peak   Leave a comment

Thimble Peak View Over The Tucson Basin — Image by kenne

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

— – John Ruskin

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake   Leave a comment

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake — Image by kenne

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment
against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

— E. Stanley Jones
 

Touring HTOWN Wall Art   Leave a comment

Kenne D., Kenne G., and Katelyn — Image by Janie

“What is life? – A novel. Who is the author? – Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep… and sleep.”

— Nikolai Karamzin

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