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“Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature – not his Father but his Mother stirs within him, and he becomes immortal with her immortality. From time to time she claims kinship with us, and some globule from her veins steals up into our own.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

“Man is nothing else than the narrow & perilous bridge between nature & spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous & irresolute.”
~ Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962

‘Dreaming.’ #Painting by Herbert Brandl #art

#Streetart (detail) by Sainer in Örebro, #Sweden #art

#Streetart (detail) by Sainer in Örebro, #Sweden #art

“One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one’s flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one’s pen.”
~ Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910

[Tolstoy by Leonid Pasternak, 1905]

“One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one’s flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one’s pen.”
~ Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910

[Tolstoy by Leonid Pasternak, 1905]

The Arctic Tern is thought to have the longest migration of any bird - traveling from the high Arctic to the Antarctic. #Illustration from John James Audubon's ‘The Birds of America’ (1840-44) #art

‘Philippe La Gaude.’ #Painting by Edwin Ambrose Webster (1869-1935) #art

‘Men in suits standing with a woman in a pink dress.’ #Painting by Honoré Desmond Sharrer (1920-2009) #art