For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
-- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
All differences between groups have not disappeared; this is obvious. Yet they may progressively decline. Exactly for this reason, they assume increasing importance for individuals. It is the rootless, not the rooted, who fetishize their roots.
-- Russell Jacoby
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
Step into the wild desert of Moab, Utah.
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in a gray twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
TBT Morning, Canyonlands Southern Entrance 36" x 48" Oil On Panel
This was a painting from a visit to Canyonlands 11 years ago today. This is the valley that the road to the Southern Entrance follows.
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What we end up measuring is not always the most important thing but the easiest to measure.
-- Lisa Ordóñez (Goals Gone Wild (2009))
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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
Respect science, respect nature, respect each other.
-- Hal Harvey
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Wisdom in Space
Travolax | Always Traveling
Jonathan L Keeton