"The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world."

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Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

John Burroughs

#Nature Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“Simple is the only way I can write.”
“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
“Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.”
“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”

Source : "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.
“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“We don't get to decide who God is.”
“The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders

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