carpe diem

 

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday.

Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2016.

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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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war

 

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

 

~ Peter Blegvad ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ants at war taken in June 2022.

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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BEES KNEES

 

“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”

 

~ William Golding ~

 

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

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THE NECTAR OF NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL BOUNTY

 

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.

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THE VERY LAST BUMBLEBEE

 

Celebrating Earth Day 2021

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Zitadelle Moat Nature Preserve in April 2010.

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THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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

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THE HUNTRESS

 

“Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste,

or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?”

 

~ Sextus Propertius ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a lamp, under whose light I have enjoyed countless delicious meals over the years, taken in May 2018. The meals are now a part of the past and the lamp has found a new home. Thank you Mateo and Giovanna.

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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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SURVIVAL

 

“You can’t run away from trouble.

There ain’t no place that far.”

 

~ Uncle Remus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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PLIGHT OF THE BEE

 

“The bee’s life is like a magic well:

the more you draw from it,

the more it fills with water.”

 

~ Karl Von Frisch ~

 

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

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BEES KNEES

 

“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”

 

~ William Golding ~

 

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

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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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OUR SMALL CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“The next evolutionary step for humankind

is to move from human to kind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2010.

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WOODENHEART

 

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is

in the eyes of others only green thing that stands in the way.

Some see Nature all ridicule an deformity,

and some scarce see Nature at all.

But to the eyes of the man of imagination,

Nature is Imagination itself.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.

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THE BREAKFAST GUEST

 

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,

it would be like hearing the grass grow

and the squirrel’s heart beat,

and we should die of that roar

which lies on the other side of silence.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in August 2016.

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THE MYTH

 

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

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bingerwald, Germany in September 1991.

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