"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Nature Quotes #Flower Quotes #Blossoming Quotes

“People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all.”
“When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.”

Source : Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher
“If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.”
“I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.”

Source : Jack Shadbolt (1968). “In search of form”
“It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.”
“A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.”
“Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.”
“TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.”

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