Category Archives: Quotography

Longing with Pablo Neruda

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“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ♦ © Photo: Julie Skotte,  Nature photographer of the year 2012 in Denmark. Blog: fotofabler.dk  Website: julieskotte.com Featured here on Postcard from Greenland

Holy Hedges – Norfolk, eine Heckenlandschaft

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“Love your neighbour; yet don’t pull down your hedge.” – Benjamin Franklin “There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember“ – Philip Dunne Die Hecke ist eine Abgrenzung und ein  Hindernis, andererseits auch ein natürlicher Lebensraum. Sie ist …

Windows of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk

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A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.  – Stewart Brand Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.  – Mignon McLaughlin Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. – Douglas Horton Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To …

Toffifee für Dina-Toffeefee

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 “A party without cake is a meeting!”- Siri and Selma, sweet Bookfayries I can’t believe it! Siri and Selma just surprised me with these lovely Fairytoffeefeemuffins, so delicious, please help yourself! 🙂 My momma always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump “Das Leben …

Postcard from Cley next the Sea, Norfolk

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Gerrit A. walking in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, UK, 2012   “One step at a time is good walking” – Chinese proverb Masterwalk bei Ebbe in North-Norfolk  – Low Tide is good for salty walks.   “For creativity and new ideas we close the PC and go for a walk ” – Dina, Master, …

Ignorance – is bliss?

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“Irony is wasted on the stupid.” – Oscar Wilde “The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live– undisturbed, …

On the Backs, Cambridge

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“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” “Love is a better teacher than duty.” “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” “We …

Bridges across the Cam in Cambridge

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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” – Ralph Ellison (My favourite quote to bridges and interesting facts to this bridge in particular  is coming up soon on kbvollmarblog ) 🙂 “I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.” – Max Beckmann “One of the hardest things in life to …

Reading – Classic Style

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Im Liegen zu lesen ist Erliegen dem Wesen Aus “Den Brabbeleien von Masterchen” von Siri Buchfee gesammelt Belly reading is mind weeding! From Master’s gibberish, collected by Selma, Bookfayrie © Text: unauthorized publication © Photo: Roswitha Mecke (it’s not quite the original, Dina made a photo of the photo)