Quote for Today: Annie Proulx
Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past slaughter nor cruelty, no accident nor …
Dressing the Story: A Gallery of Operatic Set Design
Scenery is more than mere background or decoration. It has power to determine our rejection or acceptance of a story. Storytelling began with the human voice. No props, no set, just …
Quote for Today: John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their …
Quote for Today: Peter Matthiessen
I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and heaven in the silence, the requiem …
Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. …
Quote for Today: Lito Tejada-Flores
You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves. —Lito Tejada-Flores Public Domain Image …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you …
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like “zer dark eyes of zer mind” back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,’ said …