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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty


The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

16 comments:

chrome3d said...

The water makes the stones softer and round all the time. When will it end? Could it some day end?

Lilly said...

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

This is a thought provoking one Sylvia. Interesting.

Rinkly Rimes said...

It would be interesting to count the number of colours in those pebbles!

Anonymous said...

If we turn each moment into ease and grace, then there will be no ghosts lingering over our shoulders.

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Sylvia: I love your watery captures, very nice.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful words and images. Good food for thought.

Paz

♥ Braja said...

Love this one, "Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Thinking of you Sylvia, and came just to say hello
love to you
xx

Naturegirl said...

Very powerful prose..we must all do our part. Happy Earth week..nice to meet one who cares about the gifts Mother Earth gives us.

Great Grandma Lin said...

our life is full of images to enjoy and take in

robin andrea said...

I'm so glad you post quotes by Anais Nin. Sometimes I think she has been long forgotten. Such an interesting writer. Beautiful photos, as always.

Sujatha Bagal said...

Krugman's essay (that you've written about below) resonated with me as well. At this moment, a lot of parental involvement at home to fill in the gaps seems to be the only answer.

Deborah Godin said...

Well chosen words for the times!!

dianasfaria.com said...

beautiful quotes!
I love your tulip tree & there is nothing so pretty as water rushing over rocks.

Darlene said...

The Tagore quote about difficulties being slurred over is very timely. Injecting a little politics here I might say that ignoring the Bush administrations illegalities would fall into that category.

I love the sound of water, whether it is the roar of a waterfall or the soft sounds of a brook lapping over pebbles. You have captured a visual portrait of those sounds and I can almost hear them.

Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardens said...

How true ring those words. We try to do our utmost to achieve a better world. Do the ones who are in charge and responsible put on their listening ears, unfortunately NOT! Never have! Never will.History tells the past and the future. What has been the future is now the past.

EG CameraGirl said...

I especially like the quote on greed, Sylvia. We live in such a greedy society. When will we learn as a culture that "things" do NOT make us happy, do not calm our spirits?

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