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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VIRUS

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

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

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THE GREAT DYING

 

“Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction

of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

 

~ Louie Psihoyos ~

 

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

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BUTTE

 

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.

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ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH

 

“Humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer.” 

 

~ John Gray ~

 

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

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FENÊTRE

 

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history,

stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,

to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly,

but living poetry like the leaves of a tree,

which precede flowers and fruit ~

not a fossil earth, but a living earth;

compared with whose great central life

all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”

 

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of fossil Orthoceras taken in September 2019.

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CIRCLE GAME

 

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

 

~James Lendall Basford ~

 

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

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LULLABY FOR LOSERS

 

“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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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.

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RAVEN, OH RAVEN

 

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in September 2016.

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