Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go.
Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere;
for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire,
and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.

H. Rider Haggard

He’s of the colour of the nutmeg.
And of the heat of the ginger….
he is pure air and fire;
and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him,
but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him;
he is indeed a horse,
and all other jades you may call beasts.

William Shakespeare, Henry V

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer.
You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.
But in photography everything is so ordinary;
it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

Let us be thankful for the fools.
But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is
to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone
with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and
that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple
beauty of nature.  I firmly believe that nature brings solace
in all troubles.

Anne Frank

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so;
but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bird watching is a bloodless expression of mans primitive hunting instincts.
We have substituted binoculars and cameras for the gun, but we still seek a trophy -
A new species on a life list, or photographs of one of earth’s rarest and most exquisite creatures.
Our search may take us no farther than a nearby meadow -
Or it can lead to the cloud forests of tropical mountains.
James A. Kern

Animals have these advantages over man:  they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire, letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769