Sylvia's world in thoughts and pictures
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| A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868 |
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| The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906 |
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| The Beatles in 1957 |
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| Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907 This shot was "colored" later, but I lived in New Orleans in the 50s and this sight was not uncommon even then. I took one up the river and it was wonderful! |
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| It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor. - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies! - Gene Hill |
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| You are a
child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. - Desiderata |
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| All seasons are beautiful for
the person who carries happiness within. - Horace Friess |
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| Love comforteth like sunshine
after rain. - Shakespeare |
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| Lie down and listen to the
crabgrass grow. - Marya Mannes |
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| Summer afternoon . . . summer
afternoon - the two most beautiful words in the English language. - Henry James |
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| Welcome to Sky Watch!! Join us each week and share the beauty of your skies!! We've had such wonderful weather that our skies have been a bit dull, plain old blue!! I had to dig in the files for some more colorful ones!! Enjoy! |
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| I go to nature to be
soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs |
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| The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
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| Love isn't limited to us humans!! |
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| A smile is a curve that sets everything straight! Anonymous |
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| In
all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle |
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| What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because
what nature creates has eternity in it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive
ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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| Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson |
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| World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama
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| Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. --Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron |
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| Phone from the car 1959 |
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| A street in New York City, 1915 |
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Segregated seating at the Orange Bowl, 1955 |
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| Nice Sales Pitch - 1953 |
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Picking up the US Mail, early 1900s.
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| World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama
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| The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in
liking what one has to do. - Anonymous |
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| Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills |
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| A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams. - Anonymous |
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| And how did I get such TALL kids??? |
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| The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. Marcus Aurelius |
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| Welcome to Sky Watch!! Share the beauty of your skies with us today!!! |
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| Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley |
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There
is only one person who could ever make you happy, and
that person is you.
David D. Burns, M.D. |
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| Send this to everyone you're still able to remember! And never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time. |
