Sunday, January 22, 2006

Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Wear Red

When in doubt wear red.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

Monday, January 16, 2006

Glorious Greeting!


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

Sunday, January 15, 2006

A Single Soul


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Saturday, January 14, 2006

A Memory

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Eagle Eye


It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.


Aesop

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Snow-flowers

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.



John Muir

Lunatics


A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Marvelous


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Pure Contemplation

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Eduard Hanslick

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

No Winter


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.


Josh Billings

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Sunrise

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.


George Washington Carver

Monday, January 02, 2006

Grow Strong

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill