( photo by Jason Cane )

( painting by John Martin )

“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very” -Thomas Carlyle

 ( painting by Zdzislaw Beksinki )

“Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir

“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.” -Charles Baudelaire