shores

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.

Plato

forest

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

play

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

difference

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

Anne Lamott

green

Fresh and green we will remain

Bearing fruit to a ripe old age

Happy to tell about Your name

A blessed endeavour

The righteous flourish like the palm

And grow like the cedars of Lebanon

Planted in the courts of God

Forever and ever

Fresh and Green, Music and Lyric by Steve Bell, adapted from Psalm 92

gladness

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

reflection

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton

expressive

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Henry David Thoreau

lines

photo walk ix part i