reboot required

 

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.

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child

 

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

 

~ Margaret Mead ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.

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the myth

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.

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la malédiction

 

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

 

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

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a sea of humanity

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

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ONLY LOSERS

 

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

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AGELESS AM I

 

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.

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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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LA MALÉDICTION

 

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

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DIVERSITY

 

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

 

~ Malcolm Forbes ~

 

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

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BRICK BY BRICK

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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NATURE MORTE

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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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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THE DEVIL IS REAL

 

“Hope always deceives us

when it becomes a substitute for action.”

 

~ Marty Rubin ~

 

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

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A SEA OF HUMANITY

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth

can go on forever in a finite world

is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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AN ANGRY YOUNG MAN

 

“I wanted to change the world.

But I have found that the only thing

one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

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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.

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BITTER STORM

 

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

 

~ Edward Abbey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Erbenheim, Germany, in November 1985.

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ONLY LOSERS

 

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

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