Cian McCarthyさんのイラストまとめ

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
~ Rachel Carson

With the Puffins 🎨 Sara Rhys (@drawingsara)

Lines Written In Early Spring ~ William Wordsworth

"I follow my heart, for I can trust it."
~ Friedrich Schiller

Cloud Study (c.1822) 🎨 John Constable

The paintings of Arthur J. Elsley have always been able to evoke in me a fond remembrance for a childhood belonging to an age in which I, paradoxically, did not trod.

Verily, the landscape of my heart is shaped thus (he says rather grandly 😅).

Oh, to escape to one's secret thinking place! 🌊

"There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,"
~ Lord Byron

A Rocky Coast (1877) 🎨 William Trost Richards

"Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself."
~ Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations'

Rivendell 🎨 J.R.R. Tolkien

Blessed is the child who after reading about the wise old wizard or king in his adventure books instantly thinks of his grandfather.

Nearing Home (1872) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

A Winter Adventure with Pooh and Piglet 🎨 E. H. Shepard

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

O'er Snow Clad Pastures When the Sky Grew Red 🎨 Joseph Farquharson

Wishing a beautiful Christmas Eve night to all. 🙂