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What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
-Gertrude Jekyll
Quote 19
The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin. The probability that great artists will appear will be greater to the degree that the field of culture and the possibilities for expression are broadened.
The road is long and full of difficulties. At times we lose our way and must turn back. At other times we go too fast and separate ourselves from the masses. Sometimes we go too slow and feel the hot breath of those treading at our heels. In our zeal as revolutionaries we try to move ahead as fast as possible, clearing the way. But we know we must draw our nourishment from the mass and that it can advance more rapidly only if we inspire it by our example.
– Ernesto (Che) Guevara de la Serna
Quote 18
(Clark – Duluth, 1988)
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.
Quote 17
(Clark Patrick – Eureka, Utah 2009)
After all the animals wink out of sight
I float on my back, eyes closed.
I picture all the fish in creation
Leaping a fence in a field of water,
One colorful species after another.
-Billy Collins (A passage from Insomnia)
quote 16
(Clark Patrick – Minneapolis, 2000)
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
-Richard Avedon
quote 15
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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(Clark Patrick – Madeline Island, 1999)
I’m a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I’ve thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn’t a seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
quote 13
Gandhi’s seven deadly sins:
1.) Wealth without work
2.) Pleasure without conscience
3.) Science without humanity
4.) Knowledge without character
5.) Politics without principle
6.) Commerce without morality
7.) Worship without sacrifice
quote 12
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C. S. Lewis
quote 11
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
– President Dwight Eisenhower