Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
“The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.” ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
by: Paul Laurence Dunbar
These are the days of elfs and fays:
Who says that with the dreams of myth,
These imps and elves disport themselves?
Ah no, along the paths of song
Do all the tiny folk belong.
Round all our homes,
Kobolds and gnomes do daily cling,
Then nightly fling their lanterns out.
And shout on shout, they join the rout,
And sing, and sing, within the sweet enchanted ring.
Where gleamed the guile of moonlight’s smile,
Once paused I, listening for a while,
And heard the lay, unknown by day–
The fairies’ dancing roundelay.
Queen Mab was there, her shimmering hair
Each fairy prince’s heart’s despair.
She smiled to see their sparkling glee,
And once I ween, she smiled at me.
Since when, you may by night or day,
Dispute the sway of elf-folk gay;
But, hear me, stay!
I’ve learned the way to find Queen Mab and elf and fay.
Where e’er by streams, the moonlight gleams,
Or on a meadow softly beams,
There, footing round on dew-lit ground,
The fairy folk may all be found.
The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
Julian Grenfell
To see the world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in a hour
“I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.”
Luis Barragan
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius
“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.”
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.”
Maya Lin
Maverick Mist 