Nature Pics and Quotes of the Week

Orange Koi Carp Largest Goldfish in the World

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead : his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Mandarin Fish

 Less Judgement More Curiosity !

Blue Army of Soldier Crabs
 
I would teach children music ,physics and philosophy;

 but most importantly music,for the patterns in music
 and all the arts are the key to learning.

Plato

The New Zealand Kakapu The worlds largest flightless Parrot

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Milkweed Butterfly and Spider Web

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.

J.R.R.Tolkien 

Blue Tarantula 

 Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. 

Walt Disney

Jewel Caterpillar

Come dance in the space between your thoughts, where love turns particles into waves.

Alfred K. LaMotte

Nature itself is the best physician.

 Hippocrates

Blue Emperor Scorpion

Everyone is a genius. But if you a judge a fish by it ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that its stupid! 

Albert Einstein

Cardinal in the Snow

California Poppies and Cactus

Water Dragon Lizard

Owls

Poetry of Nature

 Poetry is not an opinion expressed.
It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound
or a smiling mouth. 

Kahlil Gibran

Red Gurnard Balığı

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be  violent and all will be lost.

Charlie Chaplin’s 
The Great Dictator

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Gouldian Finch

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  
Edgar Allan Poe

Poecilotheria metallica, a species of Tarantula.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 

The Dawn 
by Friedrich Nietzsche

White Peacock Tuscany Italy

 Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason & your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. 

 Kahlil Gibran

Indian Bullfrog 

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
 There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charlie Chaplin

Royal Flycatcher

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

 Pablo Picasso

 The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

 Pablo Picasso 

Sunbird on a Blood Lily

 Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
 

 You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

Pablo Picasso