‘We need the tonic of wildness…We can never have enough of nature.’ – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods For the leap day of a leap year, a photo taken many years ago while driving around this amazing elderly man’s farm in Dubbo, Australia. We rode on the back of his ute… Continue reading #60: Leap!
‘Some animals…are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose.’- Aristotle
‘Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.’ – Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
‘I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.’ – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
‘All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.’ – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running There’s something very satisfying now about buying new running shoes. It’s a sign… Continue reading #44: Running shoes
‘It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.’ – John Steinbeck, The Pearl
‘There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.’ – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Sadly, the conflict between the junior doctors and the government continues. I remain hopeful for a resolution, but patient safety has to remain a priority and there is no doubt that this will be compromised if the… Continue reading #41: Here we go again…
‘Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
‘My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key’ – Arcade Fire
