Kandze, Tibet
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life.
Live as on a mountain.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Tibet
Lamayuru, India
Mountains are for winds,
That shake not, though they blow perpetually.
- William Shakespeare
Pakistan
Yamdrok Tso Lake, Tibet
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountains yields.
- Christopher Marlowe, 1564 - 1593
Tibet
A path is a prior interpretation of the
best way to traverse a landscape.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Mt. Popa, Burma/Myanmar
Nepal
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of church going.
- Aldous Huxley
Slovenia
Road to Sarobi, Afghanistan
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
- Alice Walker
Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan
At Tawilah, Yemen
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
- Lawrence Durrell
Ladakh, India
Tibet
Peru
Kashmir
A fine landscape is like a piece of music;
it must be taken at the right tempo.
- Paul Scott Mowrer
Agra, India
‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’
To tune in, without reverence, idly — but with real inward attention…
You can extract the essence of a place once you know how.
If you just get as still as a needle, you’ll be there.
U P C O M I N G E X H I B I T I O N S
CHRIS BEETLES FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS
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Museum of Contemporary Art
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