"So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing is to make use of this history, not merely to be absorbed into it. For me, landscape photographs begin as the artifacts of personal moments. They get interesting when they become cultural commentary."

-- Mark Klett

#Thinking Quotes #Land Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.”
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”

Source : bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.”
“I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.”
“You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.”
“Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.”
“For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.”
“The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.”

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