Archive for the ‘Quote’ Tag

The Existential Man Would Have Been 81 Today   2 comments

Tom Turner in an Existential Moment — Image by kenne

“If thought corrupts language,
language can also corrupt thought.”

— George Orwell

He gazes through the 
rained soaked window
into his confused mind.

Lonely in the moment
turning his head away
from my open hand.

He was not prepared
to be rejected and
broken up by life.

— kenne

 

To All Mothers, Happy Mother’s Day   Leave a comment

A Symbol of Mother’s Day (Gambel’s Quail with Chick) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

I Need My Pelican Head!   1 comment

Pelican Head — Image by kenne

“I need my pelican head!”

Oceanside Pier   Leave a comment

Oceanside Pier (August 14, 2014) — Image by kenne

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away.

A Naturalist With Children   3 comments

A Naturalist Teaching Children About Nature — Image by kenne

When we encourage a love of nature in our children, we give them a lifelong gift.

— kenne

 

Monument Valley Painting   1 comment

Monument Valley Painting by kenne

“Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.”

— Gary Snyder

Santa Catalina Paintbrush Wildflowers   Leave a comment

Santa Catalina Paintbrush Wildflowers — HDR Image by kenne

“So I ran, fearing not where I’d go
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.”

— Dolly Parton

Our First Spring Cactus Blossom   3 comments

Our First Spring Cactus Blossom (March 31, 2023) — Image by kenne

“I’m an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus.
I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.”

— Frederick  Lenz 

Bourbon Street, Early Morning Hangover   Leave a comment

Bourbon Street, Early Morning Hangover — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New Orleans.”

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

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

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

Art Is A Way Of Making A Life   2 comments

Arizona Fleabane — Image by kenne

“I am very interested in the behavior of art rather than the achievement of art.

I see all the arts as apprenticeships for the big art of our lives.”

— Paulus Berensohn

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