Quotation Time

“What makes a poet a poet?
The slender antenna of awareness
combing the air for messages.”

Luci Shaw (www.LuciShaw.com))

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Murphy’s Law

Quotation:

“I keep uncovering more and more evidence for a Murphy’s Law of publishing: that if a book is truly wonderful, it is certain to be out of print.”

Roger Deakin – ‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’

Remembrance

 

“For your tomorrow
We gave our today.”

Attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958)

“At the going down of the sun and in the Morning
We will remember them.”

from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon

Photo Quote

 

Just a thought to leave you with while I’m off-line again for a few days. Back next week.

Spring

“No matter how long the Winter,
Spring is sure to follow.”

Proverb in various traditions.

Quote For Today

“Whosoever would understand the book of nature
must walk its pages with his feet.”

Paracelsus

Food For Thought!

“In one year, three times as much rubbish is dumped into the world’s oceans as fish are caught, by weight.”

(From the RYA Members magazine. Winter 2017)

Other Men’s Words 2

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Other Men’s Words 1

“Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung

Cycling Quote 3

This one is specially for the feminists among you! :

“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.”

Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune 1895