Ellen Meloy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Sea #Light #Water
A map, it is said, organizes wonder.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Maps #Wonder #Said
There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Land #People #Limits
I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desertâ€”under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like homeâ€“not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.Â How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.Â How you can fall in love with the light.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Falling In Love #Home #Light
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but alsoâ€”more soâ€”for beauty.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Eye #Light #Color
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.
-- Ellen Meloy

#Alaska #Squares #America

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

Ellen Meloy famous quotes

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