Posts Tagged With: Ancestors

a long uncertain ride

 

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,
only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.


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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

000 summer solstice

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.


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NO MEANING

 

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.


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TEAT TIPIS

 

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen.
The majority of them weren’t even mammals.”

 

~ Robert Anton Wilson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image from a untitled illustration by Geoffrey Bartholomew created in 1980.


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THE LAST OF MY KIND

 

“Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish;
selfishness makes people selfish.”

 

~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.


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THE THIEF

 

“It is opportunity that makes the thief.”

 

~ Seneca the Younger ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.


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A LONG UNCERTAIN RIDE

 

“A destruction, an annihilation
that only man can provoke,
only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.


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CAW YOUR RASPY POETRY

 

“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”

 

~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bayern (Bavaria), Germany in September 2016.


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ANCESTORS

 

“Mules are always boasting
that their ancestors were horses.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1993.


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DEAD END

 

“Life is a dead-end street.”

 

~ H. L. Mencken ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in August 1981.


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THE CONNECTION

 

“Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.”

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

 

 

000-the-connectionDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France in June 2006.


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PASS IT ON

 

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

000 pass it onDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the stone circle during the Albion People’s Naming Ceremony at the Stonehenge Free Festival, England on June 21st 1982.


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