STARS

 

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

 

~Seneca ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2016.

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THE DEATH OF A ROSE

 

“When I have plucked the rose,

I cannot give it vital growth again,

it needs must wither.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2020.

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EARTH

 

“We are a fluke of nature,

a quirk of evolution,

a glorious contingency.”

 

~ Michael Shermer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Wieland Förster taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

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PHALLUS DEI

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

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VOYAGEUR

 

“Once I blazed across the sky,

Leaving trails of flame;

I fell to earth, and here I lie –

Who’ll help me up again?

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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