carpe diem

 

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

Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Photo taken in Paris in September 2016.

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legacy

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

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

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the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.

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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 weight

 

“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2013.

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a long uncertain ride

 

“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,

only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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circle game

 

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

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

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AS WE ONCE KNEW IT

 

“As beings, we should not strive to change the world but change ourselves.

For if we change ourselves all things are possible.”

 

~ Henry Johnson Jr. ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Rethymno on the Island of Crete in 1992.

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MAMMOTH STEAKS

 

“Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred;

a flint will break upon a feather bed.”

 

~ John Cleveland ~

 

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

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RED SHOES

 

“Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.”

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 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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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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ORIGINAL SIN

 

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

 

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

 

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

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LA FISSURE

 

“You spend so much time, so much effort,

trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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

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A LONG UNCERTAIN RIDE

 

“A destruction, an annihilation

that only man can provoke,

only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

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

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MISANTHROPE

 

“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,

and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

 

~ quote attributed to Albert Einstein

by Frederick S. Perls ~

 

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

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DANS LE STYLE DES MAMMOUTHS

 

“In pushing other species to extinction,

humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.”

 

~ Paul R. Ehrlich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a ceramic creation by Ule Ewelt taken in Paris in June 2018.

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.

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CARPE DIEM

 

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Tree Of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) growing in a drain pipe on l’Eglise Saint–Etienne-du-Mont in Paris in September 2016.

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