Nicolas Robert

“My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk.”

~ John Keats, in his letter ‘To Percy Bysshe Shelley’ (1820)

#Sculpture of Keats, Moorgate, #London.

Haruki Murakami, ‘The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day’ (2005)...

#Painting by Igor Mudrov.

"Above all I observe the physical movements of mountains, water, trees, and flowers,...everywhere one is reminded of similar movements in human bodies, of similar manifestations of joy and suffering in plants."

~ Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

#Painting by Egon Schiele.

#Painting & #streetart in #Manchester by Tank Petrol #art

‘Tino X,’ ‘Reduced to rhythm’ & ‘Echo from beyond.’ #Photography by Bastiaan Woudt #art

‘Planet Series.’ Digital #sculpture by Christoph Pauschenwein #art

‘Hard Alee’ (1882) ‘Oda and Per by the window’ (1892) & ‘Madonna’ (1892). #Painting by Christian Krohg #art #Norway

#Photography by Masahiko Kuroki #art

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived...

What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?”

~ Richard Powers, ‘The Overstory’

#Painting (detail) by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1879.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

~ John Muir, ‘My First Summer in the Sierra’ (1911)

#Photography

#Photography, Smith Sound, off Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island (1995) #art

From "Ultima Thulé: explorers and natives of the polar North" by Jean Malaurie [1998’

#Painting by Antonio Seguí (1934-2022) #art

‘Tree and man in landscape’ (1923) & ‘Worker with Machine’ (c. 1925). #Painting by Wilhelm Lachnit #art

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July was very warm & dry for Helsinki, but thunderstorms came on Monday & it's cooler now, you have a good midweek too, Yoshimi!

Indeed!

#Painting by Louis Treserras (b. 1958) #art

#Illustration by Paul Krafft for the reverend William Schuler Harris’ ‘Capital and Labor’ (1907), a treatise on the exploitation of workers and the potential solutions. ⁠
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“Call me crazy, but I dream of a world where equality isn’t debated, kindness isn’t rare, and joy isn’t reserved for the lucky. If a few more hearts held onto that dream, maybe we’d finally get it right.”

~ Paul Avellino

#Photography

#Streetart by Giulio Giustini in #Rome #art

‘Femme de Marrakech’ (Woman from Marrakech). #Sculpture by Céline Lepage (1920) #art

“I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn
between an organism and its environment. The environment is in you.
It is passing through you. You are breathing it in and out.
You and every other creature.”

~ Wendell Berry (b. 1934)

#Photography, iStock

Painting by Julian Onderdonk.

#Photography by Marcus Schaefer #art

Bali Woman dancer in the village of Kedaton, 1930s.

#Photography, Author unknown #art #Bali

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is right, for all is like an ocean, all things flow & touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ (1880)

#Photography

“Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?”

~ Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

#Drawing via BBC Radio 4.

Dusty glass frog (Teratohyla pulverata). Growing up to 1.1 in (2.9 cm) long, this tiny amphibian is native to parts of Central and South America, where it lives in wetland or forest habitats.

#Photography by Geoff Gallice #art

‘Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress.’ #Painting by Frida Kahlo (1926) #art

#Painting by Sofia Bonati #art

It's no surprise that the cicadas enjoy your garden, Yoshimi, you have a good day too!