"Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world."

-- Galen Rowell

#Photography Quotes #Cities Quotes #Two Quotes

“We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.”

Source : A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”
“I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
“At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.”
“It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.”
“What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.”
“Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1892). “Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems”
“Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.”
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”

Source : Speech at Kettering, 3 July 1938, in The Times 4 July 1938

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