Ellen Meloy quotes
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“...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.”
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“There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.”
-- Ellen MeloySource : Ellen Meloy (2008). “The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky”, p.289, Vintage
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“I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.”
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“The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.”
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“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.”
-- Ellen Meloy
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Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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“I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine”
Source : Song: Water
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