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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough

8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2024

Observe the marvels as they happen around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the beauty moving through and be silent.
Jalil al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), Persia

10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2014

Harmony makes small things grow.  Lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust (c. 86-34 B.C.)

12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 21st 2013

If you do not rest upon thee good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
[T]hose who take for their standard any one but nature – the mistress of all masters – weary themselves in vain.
Leornardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2013

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon

12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2012

I have been thinking about taking part in the 52 photos project for a while but I have not got round to it for one reason or another.  Each week Bella gives a prompt to inspire photographers to get creative.  The current them is:
Delicate.
Alternate prompts:
soft
ethereal
fragile
subtle
My first photo for the theme isn’t that inspired on my [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2012

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’  Look what happens with love like that!  It lights the whole sky.
Hafez (1315 – 1390)

16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 1st 2012

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