I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful.
― Ansel Adams
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Daily Archives: January 13, 2024
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The grapes in Uzbekistan are incredible fruit. They seem to have a life of their own. They’re called “the bridesmaid’s little finger,” and that’s about the size of them. They’re very long, and green, and they’re absolutely the most delicious.
~ Audre Lorde
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The greatest source of fascination in our daily lives isn’t art or politics or faith, but the lives of the people around us, and those of people we’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via Marquette University
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To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism is: loyalty not to a family and a fiction, but a loyalty to the nation itself.
~ Mark Twain
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Campus Life at the
Birkbeck, University of London
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I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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