Posts Tagged With: Trees

house and garden

 

“She has a house and garden,
   I would like to see what happens…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.


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no one listening

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.


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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.


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can’t see the forest for the irony

 

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

 

~ E. A. Bucchianeri

 

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


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if only for a moment

 

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

 

~ Sydney J. Harris ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.


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the fabric of our souls

 

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

 

~ Charles Ives ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.


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rhymes wrung

 

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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


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skeletons

 

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,
Their beards of icicles and snow…”

 

~ Charles duc d’Orléans ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.


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ready to embrace it

 
“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,
and pompous in the grave.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.


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touching

 

“The flames you keep touching when you’re young,
you keep right ahead on touching when you’re older.”

 

~ Will Walton ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the mid 1980’s.


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evening’s shadows

 

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.


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denudation

 

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French proverb ~

 

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


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a time of dying

 

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

 

~ e.e. cummings

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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all this paradise

 

“Think of what a paradise this world would be
if men were kind and wise.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.


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now

 

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

 

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.


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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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summer cedes

 

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.


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twilight

 

     “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps
its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2015.


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poetree

 

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

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


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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.


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