December 4, 2023

“Beauty is hidden in the most unappreciated places and it simply takes an open and appreciative heart to find it.” Sosuke Takahashi

August 23, 2023

“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come to represent awe-seeking—what I find in the still-wild places is counterbalance to the traumas.” L.M. Browning, contemporary American author

August 10, 2023

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American writer, philosopher and artist 1883-1931

July 18, 2023

“For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it

June 28, 2023

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.” John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and philosopher 1819-1900

June 26, 2023

“Each act of imagination, each moment of creative life stands up to the entire material universe and affirms the reality of meaning against the corroding solvents of entropy, dark matter, or whatever else may be dragging the physical world into oblivion.” Gary Lachman, contemporary American historian and writer

June 23, 2023

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author, 1887-1948