“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Animals
now
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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the test
“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of
its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
~ Milan Kundera ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1993.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Arrested, Compassion, Cruelty, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Human Species, Imprisonment, Incarcerated, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Test, Trial, Zoos
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the sanctuary of their blindness
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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étoiles
“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Beauty, Brightly, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Flowers, Heart, Heavens, Life, Love, Microscopic, Minerals, Perspective, Photography, Plants, Poetry, Shimering, Shining, Sparkle, Stars, Time
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THE SANCTUARY OF THEIR BLINDNESS
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
© 2021 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS
“There is always something ridiculous
about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in May 2012.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Description, Dog Days, Emotion, Lines, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rages, Ridiculous, Sentences, Temptress, Twists, Virgin, Wrinkles
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ÉTOILES
“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Beauty, Brightly, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Flowers, Heart, Heavens, Life, Love, Microscopic, Minerals, Perspective, Photography, Plants, Poetry, Shimering, Shining, Sparkle, Stars, Time
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SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
~ Edward Abbey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World
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BOVINE SIGHS
“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”
~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Beast, Bovine, Brow, Brown, Cognizant, Communicate, Cow, Creatures, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emote, Emotions, Eyes, Face, Genteel, Humankind, Ignorance, Life, Peaceful, Photography, Plate, Poetry, Rational, Reason, Sighs, Steak, Thoughts
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NOW
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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EARTH DAY
“Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together… all things connect.”
~ Chief Seattle ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken somewhere in northern France in May 2013.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Beauty, Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Extermination, Extinction, Fauna, Flora, France, Future, History, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Nature, Past, Photography, Plants, Poetry
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SUICIDE BY HUMANITY
“The common curse of mankind, ~ folly and ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Original photo of street art “100,000 Elephants Killed In Three Years” by Polar Bear taken in the Rue Edouard Quenu in Paris in June 2017.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Animals, Ashes, Climate, Death, Debris, Elephants, Environment, Extermination, Graffiti, Humanity, Nature, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Street Art, Suicide, Trees
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THE TEST
“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…
consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
~ Milan Kundera ~
Photo taken in the Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in April 1993.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Compassion, Cruelty, Empathy, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Zoos
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