PROMISED LAND

 

“They say that the truth will set you free,

but then again, so will a lie.

It depends if you’re trying to get to the promised land

or if you’re just trying to get by.”

 

~ Ani DiFranco ~

 

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

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BULBOUS MAXIMUS ~ A FAIRY TALE

 

“Nationalism is an infantile thing.

It is the measles of mankind.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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

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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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PETROGLYPHS

 

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

 

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of petroglyphs on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands taken in 1994.

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LEFT BEHIND

 

“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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

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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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

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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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THE LIBATION

 

“A gender-equal society would be one where

the word ‘gender’ does not exist:

where everyone can be themselves.”

 

~ Gloria Steinem ~

 

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

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‘TWAS A TIME

 

“That is what you are. That’s what you all are…

All of you young people who served in the war.

You are a lost generation.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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

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