“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: Human Folly
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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trümmer
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;
but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”
~ Comte de Lautréamont ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cycle, Digital Imagery, Dust, Human Folly, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins
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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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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water
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COMIC OPERA
“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity
is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time
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STARSLEEP
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Greed, Human Folly, Imagination, Inheritance, Life, Night, Nothing, Paradox, Past, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Shadows, Sleep, Stars, Time, Universe, Wasteland
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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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WOODEN WORDS
“My trade and art is to live.”
~ Montaigne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a piece of wood 1,988 years old taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aspirations, Autumn, Climate, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Hopes, Human Folly, Human Kindness, Moon, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Science, Seasons, Spring, Stars, Summer, Sun, Time, Trees, Winter, Wood, Words
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RUINS
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;
but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”
~ Comte de Lautréamont ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1981.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: History, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Civilization, Digital Imagery, History, Hubris, Human Folly, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins
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TRÜMMER
“Anyway, maybe there weren’t any solutions.
Human society, corpses and rubble.
It never learned, it made the same
cretinous mistakes over and over,
trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”
Margaret Atwood
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in June 2016.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Human Folly, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins
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