So long. And thanks again for all the fish! (I love saying that.)

Fred B.

"Nature's beauty is everywhere and takes many forms.
Artists find Her truth and make it theirs."
...unattributed

"In Nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read."
...Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare

"In this way you make gallant things to adorne your Chamber."
...Alexis Pedemontanus, 16th century plant printer

"How powerful are the results printed from Nature herself."
...Henri Bradbury 1856 

"For in truth art is implicit in nature, and whoever can extract it has it."
...Albrecht Durer

"For truly great is that whereon 
Follows much reflection,
And from the effect of which
It is hard - or rather impossible - to rally,
And the memory of which is strong
And difficult to erase."
...from Longinus, "On the Sublime"
(translation by Benedict Einarson)

"It ain't what cha do, it's da way how cha do it."
...jazz

"The wrapper shouldn't be more interesting than what's inside.  I'll opt for substance, thank you."
...A. Noney Muss

"I'm getting to that state in life where my flaws are looking more charmingly idiosyncratic than fearfully sociopathic."
...Fred B.

...or to put it another way, 'More fermented than demented."  
(I heard that somewhere.)

"I'm not talking to myself.  I'm just practicing for conversations yet to occur."
...Fred B.

 

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