Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorthea Lange
Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. – Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims
Whats natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. Whats natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. Whats natural and right is love. – Susan Powter
I rise and turn back…. leaving the rest of the world to coyotes who are now running across the mountain together, howling and yipping behind me, calling for the frozen night to come. – Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild