⏯𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔷𝔦

“In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit”
Seamus Heaney (1996)
#photography #sunset #Burren #poetry #Heaney #PotD #Ireland #fire

"Little Herb Robert,
Bright and small,
Peeps from the bank
Or the old stone wall.
Little Herb Robert,
His leaf turns red;
He’s wild geranium,
So it is said."
Cicely Mary Barker (1926)
#photography #wildflower #HerbRobert #poetry #Barker #nature #flower #rocks #Burren #PotD #geranium #Ireland

"When I saw you, later, seaweed reefed in the air,
you were gray-green, incomprehensible, old.
What you clung to, hung from: old.
Trees looking half dead, stones."
Jane Hirshfield (2011)
#photography #lichen #nature #plants #poetry #Hirshfield #PotD #Macro #NaturePhotography #rock #ancient

“A fuzzy fellow, without feet -
Yet doth exceeding run!
Of velvet, is his Countenance -
And his Complexion, dun!”
Emily Dickinson (1862)
#photography #caterpillar #GardenTigerMoth #nature #poetry #EmilyDickinson #PotD #Macro #wildlife #moth #FuzzyFellow

“We have a building which is more than a building.
There is a commerce between inner and outer, between brightness and shadow,
between the world and those who think about the world.”
Edwin Morgan (2004)
#photography #Scotland #Parliament #architecture #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Holyrood #PofD #freedom

“Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!”
Emily Dickinson (1861)
#photography #sea #seascape #flowers #poetry #EmilyDickinson #cloudscape #nature #PotD #light #horizon #SeaThrift #SeaPink #wildflowers #coast

“Grey towers of Durham
Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles
Half church of God, half castle ’gainst the Scot
And long to roam these venerable aisles
With records stored of deeds long since forgot”
Sir Walter Scott (1817)
#photography #cathedral #poetry #Scott #Durham #towers #PotD #skyline

“ … the cormorants
Slip their long black bodies under the water and hunt like wolves
Through the green half-light. Screaming, the gulls watch,
Wild with envy and malice, cursing and snatching.”
Robinson Jeffers (1924)
#photography #cormorants #shags #BirdPhotography #poetry #Jeffers #PotD #sea

"But never, in its moods of phantasy,
Had to itself my spirit shaped a scene
Of sequestration more profound than thine,
Grim throne of solitude, stupendous Bass!—"
David Macbeth Moir (1830)
#photography #BassRock #Forth #Scotland #island #poetry #Moir #rock #Seascape #silhouette #brooding #PotD

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”

“A nation is shaped by what it imagines itself to be.”

“We are not a small people, but a people made small by those who told us so.”

Alasdair Gray (1934–2019)

#photography #Scotland #Independence #quotes #AlasdairGray #PotD #Culzean

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight”
e e cummings (1955)
#photography #sunset #campervan #independence #loneliness #PotD #freedom #poetry #eecummings

“The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;”
Walt Whitman (1865)
#photography #harbour #fishingboat #ship #buoy #safety #trip #poetry #WaltWhitman #ropes #tide #Portpatrick #PotD

“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1905)
#photography #roots #trees #poetry #Rilke #nature #struggle #rocks #NatureArt #art #plants #PotD

"When you come thro' the daisies
      That dance upon the down,
A blackbird pipes your praises
In fleeting, fluting phrases,
      And sunshine is your crown."
John Joy Bell (1910)
#photography #blackbird #daisies #poetry #JohnJoyBell #PotD #Nature #BirdPhotography #grass

“… a poised
Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs
Triggered to stirrings beyond sense - with a start, a bounce, a stab
Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing.”
Ted Hughes (1960)
#photography #PotD #thrush #nature #BirdPhotography #poetry #TedHughes #mavis #Sméorach #grass #worms

Who could have dreamed them up? At least snails
have shells, but all these have is—nothing.
Small black antennae like fat pins wave
as if they could take in enough to get them through.
Brian Swann (2012)
#photography #slugs #mollusc #nature #PotD #poetry #Swann #macro #ferns #grasses #antennae

“So these stones have dismissed
All but all of evolution, unmoved by it,
As the essential life of mankind in the mass
Is the same as their earliest ancestors yet.”
Hugh MacDiarmid (1934)
#photography #Iona #stones #pebbles #poetry #MacDiarmid #PotD #Columba #Bay #silence #sea

Here's one of the best nature documentaries I've seen in a while:
www.facebook.com/share/v/17Vm...

#Nature #Wildlife #Scotland #Haggis #animals #documentary

"And I'll give thee a silver pound
To row us o'er the ferry! ''
``Now, who be ye, would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy weather? ''
``O, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,
And this, Lord Ullin's daughter."
Thomas Campbell (1805)
#photography #Ulva #Scotland #landscape #poetry #Campbell #PotD

“This is my country,
The land that begat me.
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who here toil
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh,
And bone of my bone.”
Sir Alexander Gray (1928)
#photography #Mull #Scotland #landscape #poetry #Gray #PotD #Highlands #Independence

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
#photography #ducks #BirdPhotography #Nature #seashore #ducklings #PotD #quotes #DortohyLSayers

“bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places."
Jen Campbell (2014)
#photography #RobinHoodsBay #bookshop #books #quote #JenCampbell #lane #backstreet #alley #alleyway #reading #PotD

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be."
Anne Frank (1943)
#photography #tree #landscape #quote #AnneFrank #PotD #peace

"The creepers spin, devouring stone on stone;
Busy above me ravens croak and flap;"
William Hosking Oliver (2005)
#photography #vines #windows #architecture #nature #PofD #decay #ruins #NatureAndArchitecture #RusticCharm #OvergrownBeauty #HistoricWindows #StoneWall
#PhotoArt

“This smooth stone between my fourth and middle fingers
hangs above the board,
divines the perfect shape, swoops
onto the chosen cross. It clicks, quivers,
lost in a fresh landscape of white and black.”
John Latham (1986)
#photography #go #boardgame #stone #poetry #Lathan #PotD #Macro #game

“. . . And of course it rained,
the way it’s doing as I skitter up
the cleated iron of the gangway at
Fionnphort; Iona, an indecipherable
blur, a slosh of boots and oilskins,
once landed on, is even wetter."
Amy Clampitt (1987)
#photography #Fionnphort #Mull #poetry #PotD #Scotland

“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures."
Frank Herbert (1965)
#photography #art #patterns #DiscoveredArt #Dune #FrankHerbert #stems #shadows #NaturesCanvas #PotD

“Mosses do not hurry, but instead settle into a place and make it their own. They create a world where little things thrive, a lush green universe scaled to beetles and ants.”
Robin Kimmerer (2003)
#photography #moss #lichen #QuoteOfTheDay #IsleOfIona #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography

GULL

"We are the dawn marauders.
We prey on pizza. We kill kebabs.
We mug thrushes for bread crusts
with a snap of our big bent beaks."

Brian McCabe (1998)

#photography #gulls #seagull #silhouette #statue #BirdPhotography #poetry #BrianMcCabe #PotD

"THREE BOATS
The boat of the past sailed
To reach the Golden Shore.
The boat of the present sails
To see the Face of God.
The boat of the future shall sail
To become the Heart of God.”
Sri Chinmoy (1974)
#photography #Oban #boats #Scotland #saltire #poetry #Chinmoy #trawlers #harbour #WestCoast