The Shape of Light: OUR BIRDS, OUR COUNTRY

Thursday, May 3, 2018

OUR BIRDS, OUR COUNTRY

Yellow-breasted Chat

Fant's Grove Wildlife Management Area

Upstate South Carolina

Here is your country.

Cherish these natural wonders,

cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage,

for your children and your children's children.

Do not let the selfish men or greedy interests

skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt

2 comments:

John "By Stargoose And Hanglands"May 4, 2018 at 11:42 AM
Selfish men with greedy interests? Who could you be thinking about?
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GeorgeMay 4, 2018 at 1:24 PM
Unfortunately, there are more than one; otherwise, the one we are thinking about would not be where his is at the moment.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~ Ansel Adams

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world. ~ Henry Miller

You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~ Ansel Adams

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ~ Dorothea Lange

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ Confucius

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ~ Pierre Bonnard

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ~ Henry Miller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake