"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."

-- Ansel Adams

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“It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”
“If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.”
“Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.”
“The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.”

Source : Beryl Smalley (1975). “Historians in the Middle Ages”
“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”
“Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.”
“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”
“We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.”

Source : Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”

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