“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space”. Stephen Hunt, author
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Tag: #quotations
Be like the ant in summer days
Found on the walls of the Red Mosque in the palace gardens of the Schwetzinger Schloss. Since summer is short or in Shakespeares’ words:
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
be like the busy ant, go milk those aphids, gather the honeydew, and store it for winter. Coz’ winter is coming.
Alternatively, you can also stop and smell the roses.
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People from 29 nations are working under this roof
This banner was outside the theatre in Mönchengladbach.
“Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.”
Paulo Coelho
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Tethered together
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”
Michel de Montaigne
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New locks in old latches
“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Modern times
“Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
Salvador Dali
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Warped
The brick floor was completely straight but the lights made one think one was standing on solid waves.
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller
To end the confusion, it would have been enough to switch off the light.
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A thimble of light
This is not my best photo. It was taken last week, on a bicycle tour, in a dark stretch of wood, on an extremely steep road. So steep in fact, that I had to stop and push rather than pedal. When I had to stop completely to catch my breath it was very quiet and very dark and then I saw this foxglove a little ahead of me. My exhaustion is partly to blame for the anything but perfect shot but at the time, this single flower was light to me. And the title? Foxglove is called Fingerhut (thimble) in German.
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth”
George Eastman
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4th dimension
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
The quote by Flaubert is not only applicable to space but also to time. This basilica dates back to the 9th century, one of the few remnants of Carolingian architecture north of the Alps.
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Nations in Peace
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Thomas Huxley
This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).
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