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"Shapes carry weight. We do not look out at the world around us as though all things are equal. We have evolved to register and investigate and prefer certain forms over others in fractions of a second." Sussman, Hollander, Cognitive Architecture.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or
“There are places and things which make our thinking possible, and leave our thinking changed.” - Hugh Conway Morris.
I see the pattern of the universe everywhere: in the marbling of a countertop, in the bobbing flower heads of a summer meadow, in the dust kicked up by the flick of a fish tail. Apparently, the patterns that appeal to us most are those that have natural forms. We...
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed." Christopher Isherwood
"There is no moment too small in the world. Nothing should be lost. Everything has a purpose, and everything is in need of care. This is my creed. Let us embrace it." Suzanne Simard- Finding The Mother Tree. *There are no affiliated links or sponsorships in this digest.
*There are no affiliated links or sponsorships in this digest. Image Of The Week On My Photo Stories Site A Pattern Language by Andy Marshall Digging deep into the words of place From The Shop Door Digital Print Large – Photo Wellness The Door print has take over 300 hours of...
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of the day, so do I. “John Steinbeck: Travels With Charley.
”The modern world worships the idea of the self, the individual, but it is a gilded cage: there is another kind of freedom in becoming absorbed in a little life on the land. In a noisy age, I think perhaps trying to live quietly might be a virtue.” James Rebanks - English Pastoral
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