‘The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.’

- Henry David Thoreau. 21 months ago

‘If there’s a knower of tongues here, fetch him;
There is a stranger in the city
And he has many things to say.’

- Mirza Ghalib 21 months ago

‘All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other –
Only the mountain and I.’

(‘Alone Looking at the Mountain’ by Li Po). 23 months ago

‘And if I close my eyes
I can still see you dancing
Laughing loud and undiminished.’

(From the song ‘Freedom’ by David Grey). 23 months ago

‘And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.’

(From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran). 23 months ago

‘But you were never made, as I,
On the wings of the winds to fly!
The Eagle said.’

- Will Carleton. 23 months ago

‘We’re one big sad monster. Four arms, four legs, two heads, two noses.’

(From the film Digging to China). 23 months ago

‘And those who were found dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.’

- Friedrich Nietzsche. 23 months ago

‘Maybe that is what life is… A wink of the eye and winking stars’.

- Jack Kerouac. 23 months ago

‘For the moment, simple wonder; at myself lying naked in the grass, the silent man beside me, at the immensity above and the immensity within.’

(From ‘Chocolat’ by Joanne Harris.) 23 months ago