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Environmental Art by Nils Udo

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Untitled

Keith Haring

felt pen on leaf

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mary oliver, when i am among the trees

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Mary Oliver, from “A Meeting”, Truro Bear and Other Adventures : Poems and Essays

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The White Helmetshrike, found in wooded savannas and open woodlands across sub-Saharan Africa, is known for its striking eyes. These eyes feature bright yellow or orange irises encircled by a dark ring, resembling a sunflower.

#bird #birds #sunflower

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shoutout to whatever staff member has this bumper sticker at my school

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“The astonishing reality of things

Is my discovery every day.

Each thing is what it is,

And it’s hard to explain to someone how happy this makes me,

And how much this suffices me.

All it takes to be complete is to exist.”

- Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), The Astonishing Reality of Things (7 November 1915)

Translated by Richard Zenith (Pessoa, F., 2006. A little larger than the entire universe: selected poems. Penguin. pg: 58)

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Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

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Rea Kolarova

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…but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

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a piece of art is good it it’s born out to necessity. this, it’s source, is it’s criterion. there is no other.

rainer maria rilke

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“They war loving, they love laughing, they laugh weeping, they weep smelling, they smell smiling, they smile hating, they hate thinking, they think feeling, they feel tempting, they tempt daring, they dare waiting, they wait taking, they take thanking, they thank seeking, as born for lorn in lore of love to live”

— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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“I don’t run for trains.” Snub your destiny. I have taught myself to resist running to keep on schedule. This may seem a very small piece of advice, but it registered. In refusing to run to catch trains, I have felt the true value of elegance and aesthetics in behaviour, a sense of being in control of my time, my schedule, and my life. Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable