Bunk Bed

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
― Walt Whitman

Lisa and Her Little

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
―Walt Whitman

Assistant Photographer

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

Glass

“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to say it’s too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander around in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts. We thrust it out of sight because it distresses us, and if we find it enjoyable, we are sorry to see it slip away. We try to give it the support of the future, and think how we are going to arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching.”
-Blaise Pascal

Lonely Pines

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
― Anton Chekhov

No Filter

“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead…”
― Anton Chekhov

Fences

“…and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”
― Anton Chekhov

The Beekeeper’s Cabin

“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”
― Anton Chekhov

Inlets

“If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It’s too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don’t know where that is, is worse.”
― Alice Munro

North Iceland

“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
― Alice Munro