"Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there."

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Source : "Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics". Book by Rebecca Solnit, p. 235, 2007.

Eliot Porter

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“But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.”
“There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.”
“This body is the seat of all good and bad.”
“There's a lot of downsides to social media, but one of the nice things is that you can cut through all the BS and go straight to the person and ask them directly. I think that's a wonderful thing. I love talking to people who are true fans or who have a true love of cinema, and so if I can talk to them directly, great.”
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.
“Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.”

Source : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.
“Thereâ€™s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and thereâ€™s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when theyâ€™re not entirely certain theyâ€™re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the Godâ€™s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.”

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