Saturday, May 10, 2025

Born on this day – Olaf Stapledon:


Olaf Stapledon


Writer

Philosopher

May 10, 1886 – September 6, 1950

Credits:

Books:

A Man Divided (1950); A Modern Magician (1979); An Olaf Stapledon Reader (1996); Darkness and the Light (1942); Death into Life (1946); Far Future Calling (1986); Four Encounters (1976); Last and First Men (1930); Last and First men and Star Marker (1972); Last Men in London (1932); Nebula Maker (1976); Nebula Maker and Four Encounters (1983); Odd John (1935); Odd John and Sirius (1940); Old Man in New World (1944); Sirius (1944); Star Maker (1937); Talking across the World (1961); The Flames (1947); The Opening of the Eyes (1954); To the End of Time (1975); Worlds of Wonder (1949).

Movies and television:

A Modern Magician (2019); Last and First Men (2020).

Born on this day – Max Steiner:


Max Steiner


Composer

Conductor

May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971

Credits:

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); 30 Rock (2009); 77 Sunset Strip (1959–1964); 7th Cavalry (1956); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); A Civil Action (1998); A Damsel in Distress (1937); A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Distant Trumpet (1964); A Dog of Flanders (1935); A Kiss in the Dark (1949); A Majority of One (1961); A Man in a Hurry (2018); A Man to Remember (1938); A Monster Calls (2016); A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988); A Preferred List (1933); A Star Is Born (1937); A Stolen Life (1946); A Summer Place (2021); A Woman Rebels (1936); Ace of Aces (1933); Across the Pacific (1942); Adventure in Iraq (1943); Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); After Tonight (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Alice Adams (1935); All Mine to Give (1957); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); All Through the Night (1942); An Angel from Texas (1940); An Education (2009); Angela’s Ashes (1999); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Ann Vickers (1933); Anne of Green Gables (1934); Annie Oakley (1935); Another Face (1935); Any Wednesday (1966); Apache Wells (1957); April Showers (1948); Are These Our Children (1931); Army Surgeon (1942); Arrested Development (2005–2019); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Assignment: Underwater (1960–1961); Bachelor Apartment (1931); Bachelor Bait (1934); Back to Bataan (1945); Back to the Beach (1987); Backfire (1950); Bad Boys II (2003); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Band of Angels (1957); Banda sonora (2009); Bandido! (1956); Bandslam (2009); Bandstand (1960); Batman (1989); Battle Cry (1955); Battle Stations (1956); Beau Ideal (1931); Beautiful Creatures (2013); Becky Sharp (1935); Bed of Roses (1933); Before Dawn (1933); Behind Office Doors (1931); Behind the Headlines (1937); Beyond the Forest (1949); Big Jim McLain (1952); Bird of Paradise (1932); Black Gold (1962); Blade: Trinity (2004); Blind Adventure (1933); Blind Alibi (1938); Blind Dating (2006); Blond Cheat (1938); Border Cafe (1937); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Break of Hearts (1935); Breakfast for Two (1937); Breakin’ It Down (1946); Bringing Up Baby (1938); British Intelligence (1939); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat (1938); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002); Busses Roar (1942); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); By Your Leave (1934); Caged (1950); Captain Hurricane (1935); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Carnival Boat (1932); Casablanca (1942); Cash McCall (1960); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch as Cats Can (1947); Caught Plastered (1931); Chain Lightning (1950); Chance at Heaven (1933); Charlie and his Dames / The Charlie Da Clown Show (2010); Chasing Yesterday (1935); Chatterbox (1936); Cheap (2005); Check and Double Check (1930); Cheyenne (1947); China Gate (1957); China Passage (1937); Christmas in Connecticut (1945); Christopher Strong (1933); Cimarron (1931); Citizen Kane (1941); City for Conquest (1940); City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold (1994); Class of ‘44 (1973); Clear History (2013); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Close to My Heart (1951); Cobb (1994); Cold Comfort Farm (1995); Comanche Station (1960); Come Fill the Cup (1951); Come Next Spring (1956); Come on Danger! (1932); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Con Air (1997); Condemned Women (1938); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939); Consolation Marriage (1931); Corpse Bride (2005); Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938); Cracked Nuts (1931); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Crawford at Warners (2008); Creepshow (1982); Crime by Night (1944); Crime Ring (1938); Crime School (1938); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Cross Fire (1933); Cruella (2021); Cumbres borrascosas (1976); Dallas (1950); Danger Patrol (1937); Dangerous Corner (1934); Darby’s Rangers (1958); Dark Passage (1947); Dark Shadows (2012); Dark Victory (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Daymaker (2007); DC League of Super-Pets (2022); Death Knocked 3 Times (2021); Death of a Scoundrel (1956); Deep Valley (1947); Der Klang Hollywoods - Max Steiner & seine Erben (2009); Designing Women (1989); Desperate Journey (1942); Devil’s Island (1938); Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009); Diner (1982); Diplomaniacs (1933); Distant Drums (1951); Dive Bomber (1941); Divide and Conquer (1943); Dixiana (1930); Doctor Sleep (2019); Dodge City (1939); Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936); Double Danger (1938); Double Harness (1933); Down to Their Last Yacht (1934); Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Emergency Call (1933); Enchanted April (1935); Escapade in Japan (1957); Escape from Crime (1942); Everybody Loves Raymond (1998); Everything’s Rosie (1931); Fallout (2024); Fanny Foley Herself (1931); Father Is a Prince (1940); FBI Code 98 (1963); Femme Fatales (2011); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Fighter Squadron (1948); Finishing School (1934); Fin’n Catty (1943); First Lady (1937); Flaming Gold (1932); Flamingo Road (1949); Flight Angels (1940); Flight for Freedom (1943); Flight from Glory (1937); Flying Devils (1933); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Follow the Fleet (1936); For Your Consideration (2006); Force of Arms (1951); Fort Dobbs (1958); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Freakazoid! (1995); Freckles (1935); French and Saunders (1990); Friends and Lovers (1931); From the Earth to the Moon (1998); Frontier Days (1945); Funny Woman (2023); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); GCB (2012); Ghost Valley (1932); Girl Crazy (1932); Girl of the Rio (1932); Girl on the Run (1958); Girls on Probation (1938); God’s Country and the Woman (1937); Going Steady (1979); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Grand Old Girl (1935); Great Performances (1995); Green Light (1937); Gridiron Flash (1934); Gun Law (1938); Half Shot at Sunrise (1930); Hang Your Hat on the Wind (1969); Happy! (2019); Hare Ribbin’ (1944); Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963); Headline Shooter (1933); Heart of the North (1938); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Helen of Troy (1956); Hell on Frisco Bay (1955); Hellcats of the Navy (1957); Hell’s Crossroads (1957); Hell’s Highway (1932); Hell’s Kitchen (1939); Her Kind of Man (1946); Here’s Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991); Here’s Lucy (1971); Hideaway (1937); High Beer Pressure (1936); High Flyers (1937); High Stakes (1931); Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934); His Family Tree (1935); His Greatest Gamble (1934); Hiss and Make Up (1943); Histeria! (1998–1999); History Detectives (2005); Hit the Deck (1929); Hitting a New High (1937); Hold ‘Em Jail (1932); Hollywood in Vienna 2019: A Night at the Oscars & A Tribute to Gabriel Yared (2019); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood’s Musical Moods (1972); Home Before Dark (1958); Home, Tweet Home (1950); Homicide (1949); Hook, Line and Sinker (1930); Hope Springs (2012); Hot Tip (1935); House of Wax (1953); House of Women (1962); I Dream Too Much (1935); I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951); I Was Framed (1942); Ice Palace (1960); If I Were Free (1933); I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951); Illegal (1955); In Living Color (1990); In This Our Life (1942); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Intermezzo (1939); Invisible Stripes (1939); Is My Face Red? (1932); Isn’t It Romantic (2019); It All Came True (1940); Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943); Janie (1944); Jezebel (1938); Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Joan of Paris (1942); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); John Paul Jones (1959); Johnny Belinda (1948); Juke Girl (1942); June Bride (1948); Kain’s Lists (2013); Keep ‘Em Rolling (1934); Kentucky Kernels (1934); Kept Husbands (1931); Key Largo (1948); Kid Galahad (1937); Kinect Sports: Season Two (2011); King Kong (1933); King Kong (2005); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); King Richard and the Crusaders (1954); Kings Row (1955–1956); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Knockout (1941); Laddie (1935); Ladies of the Jury (1932); Lady Gangster (1942); Lady with a Past (1932); Larceny, Inc (1942); Law of the Badlands (1945); Lawrence Jones and the Command Conquer (2008); Legend (2015); Let’s Try Again (1934); Life with Father (1947); Lightning Strikes Twice (1934); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Little Orphan Annie (1932); Little Orvie (1940); Little Women (1933); Little Women (1949); Lolo (2015); Long Lost Father (1934); Lost Horizon (1937); Lost in Yonkers (1993); Love and Learn (1947); Lucky Devils (1933); Mad Men (2008–2014); Made for Each Other (1939); Make Way for a Lady (1936); Man of Two Worlds (1934); Mandy (2024); Mara Maru (1952); Marjorie Morningstar (1958); Married... with Children (1994); Mary of Scotland (1936); Masters of Sex (2014); Matinee (1993); Maverick (1957–1962); Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2019); Med lisens til å sende (2008); Melody Cruise (1933); Men of America (1932); Men of Chance (1931); Merrill’s Marauders (1962); Metropolitan Nocturne (1935); Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); Midshipman Jack (1933); Mildred Pierce (1945); Miss Firecracker (1989); M’Liss (1936); Molly (1999); Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1970); Morning Glory (1933); Mr. Love (1986); Mr. Woodcock (2007); Mrs. Mike (1949); Mummy’s Boys (1936); Murder in the Air (1940); Murder in the Big House (1942); Murder on a Bridle Path (1936); Murder on a Honeymoon (1935); Murder on the Blackboard (1934); Murder on the Waterfront (1943); Muss ‘em Up (1936); My American Cousin (1985); My Girl Tisa (1948); My Reputation (1946); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1994); Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939); Nancy Drew: Detective (1938); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978); Night and Day (1946); Night Waitress (1936); Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941); Nitram (2021); Nitrato d’argento (1996); No Marriage Ties (1933); No Other Woman (1933); No Place to Go (1939); Noah’s Ark (1928); Northern Pursuit (1943); Nothing Sacred (1937); Now, Voyager (1942); Ocean’s Eleven (2001); Of Human Bondage (1934); Off the Record (1939); Oklahoma Outlaws (1943); On Moonlight Bay (1951); One Foot in Heaven (1941); One Man’s Journey (1933); One More Tomorrow (1946); Operation Pacific (1951); Orphans (1987); Our Betters (1933); Out of the Fog (1941); P.S. I Love You (2007); Painted Desert (1938); Papillon (2017); Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (1991–1992); Parrish (1961); Partners (1932); Passage to Marseille (1944); Peach O’Reno (1931); Penguin Pool Murder (1932); Perfect Strangers (1988); Perfect Therapy 3: Dawn of the Bite (2014); Pickled Peppers (1935); Picnic with Weissmann (1969); Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood (2024); Plane Daffy (1944); Play It Again, Sam (1972); Point Me Toward Tomorrow (1977); Portrait of a Mobster (1961); Powdersmoke Range (1935); PT 109 (1963); Pursued (1947); Quick Money (1937); Racing Lady (1937); Rafter Romance (1933); Raton Pass (1951); Ready Player One (2018); Real Life (1979); Red Morning (1934); Reel Iconic (2015); Remington Steele (1985); Renegades of the West (1932); Return of the Frontiersman (1950); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Rio Rita (1929); River’s End (1940); Roar of the Dragon (1932); Roaring Guns (1944); Roberta (1935); Rockabye (1932); Rocky Mountain (1950); Romance in Manhattan (1934); Rome Adventure (1962); Rookie Revue (1941); Room for One More (1952); Rose Red (2002); Roughly Speaking (1945); Rumor Has It... (2005); Running Brave (1983); San Antonio (1945); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Saturday’s Heroes (1937); Scarlet River (1933); Schola: Sakamoto Ryûichi ongaku no gakkô (2013); Screen Two (1989); Sea Devils (1937); Second Wife (1936); Secret Service (1931); Secrets of the French Police (1932); Selena (1997); Sergeant York (1941); Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942); She (1935); She (1935); She Couldn’t Say No (1940); She’s Got Everything (1937); Shindig! (1965); Shining Victory (1941); Side Street (1929); Silly Billies (1936); Silver River (1948); Since You Went Away (1944); Sing and Like It (1934); Six by Sondheim (2013); Slim (1937); Slumberland (2022); Smartest Girl in Town (1936); So Big (1953); So This Is Harris (1933); So This Is Love (1953); Social Security in Action (1958–1968); Sock Me to Sleep (1935); Some of the Greatest (1955); Son of Kong (1933); Son of the Border (1933); Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022); South of St. Louis (1949); South of Suez (1940); South Sea Woman (1953); Special Investigator (1936); Spencer’s Mountain (1963); Spitfire (1934); Springfield Rifle (1952); Spy Ship (1942); Sr. (2022); Star of Midnight (1935); Star Stories (2006–2008); Star Trek: Voyager (1998); Starlift (1951); State’s Attorney (1932); Stingaree (1934); Storm Warning (1950); Strangers All (1935); Strictly Dynamite (1934); Striptease (1996); Submarine D-1 (1937); Success at Any Price (1934); Sued for Libel (1939); Sugarfoot (1951); Sugarfoot (1957–1961); Supernatural (2009–2014); Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987); Surf’s Up (2007); Surfside 6 (1960); Susan Slade (1961); Sweepings (1933); Swing Your Lady (1938); Swooner Crooner (1944); Symphony of Six Million (1932); That Certain Woman (1937); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Age of Consent (1932); The Age of Innocence (1934); The Alaskans (1959–1960); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Arizonian (1935); The Astronaut Farmer (2006); The Battle of Britain (1943); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); The Big Game (1936); The Big Sleep (1946); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Bondman (1916); The Boy from Oklahoma (1954); The Breaking Point (1950); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Caine Mutiny (1954); The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930); The Chapman Report (1962); The Charge at Feather River (1953); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936); The Cheyenne Kid (1933); The Cider House Rules (1999); The Conquerors (1932); The Conspirators (1944); The Corn Is Green (1945); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Crime Doctor (1934); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Damned Don’t Cry (1950); The Dancing Millionaire (1934); The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960); The Dawn Patrol (1938); The Day the Bookies Wept (1939); The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948); The Delightful Rogue (1929); The Departed (2006); The Desert Song (1953); The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936); The Fabelmans (2022); The FBI Story (1959); The Flame and the Arrow (1950); The Flamingo Kid (1984); The Fountain (1934); The Fountainhead (1949); The Garden of Allah (1936); The Gay Diplomat (1931); The Gay Divorcee (1934); The Gay Sisters (1942); The Giant Claw (1957); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Glass Menagerie (1950); The Goonies (1985); The Gorilla Man (1943); The Great Campaign of 1960 (2000); The Great Jasper (1933); The Great Lie (1941); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); The Half of It (2020); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Hanging Tree (1959); The History Boys (2006); The Holiday (2006); The Home Front (1943); The Informer (1935); The Irishman (2019); The Iron Mistress (1952); The Jazz Singer (1952); The Kid from Kokomo (1939); The Lady Consents (1936); The Lady Refuses (1931); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Last Command (1955); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Last of the Mohicans (1936); The Last Outlaw (1936); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Letter (1940); The Letter (1982); The Life of Emile Zola (1937); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Lion and the Horse (1952); The Little Minister (1934); The Locusts (1997); The Lost Patrol (1934); The Lost Squadron (1932); The Mad Empress (1939); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Man I Love (1946); The Man Who Found Himself (1937); The Many Saints of Newark (2021); The McConnell Story (1955); The Meanest Gal in Town (1934); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952); The Monkey’s Paw (1933); The Moon Child (2011); The Most Dangerous Game (1932); The Neon Bible (1995); The Oklahoma Kid (1939); The Old Maid (1939); The Omega Man (1971); The Oscars (2013); The Others (2000); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); The Phantom of Crestwood (1932); The Public Defender (1931); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); The Right to Romance (1933); The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960); The Roadhouse Murder (1932); The Roaring 20’s (1961); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Royal Bed (1931); The Runaround (1931); The Saddle Buster (1932); The Saint in New York (1938); The ScapeCast (2006); The Searchers (1956); The Shape of Water (2017); The Silver Cord (1933); The Silver Streak (1934); The Simpsons (1993–2008); The Sin Ship (1931); The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961); The Sisters (1938); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Sopranos (2002); The Sport Parade (1932); The Stupid Cupid (1944); The Terminal (2004); The Three Musketeers (1935); The Toast of New York (1937); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942); The Unfaithful (1947); The Violent Men (1955); The Voice of the Turtle (1947); The Whistlers (2019); The Witness Chair (1936); The Woman in White (1948); The Wonder Years (1989); The World Was His Jury (1958); Their Big Moment (1934); There Goes the Groom (1937); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); They Wanted to Marry (1937); Thirteen Women (1932); This Is Cinerama (1952); This Is the Army (1943); This Man Is Mine (1934); This Was Paris (1942); This Woman Is Dangerous (1952); Those Calloways (1965); Three Sons (1939); Three Who Loved (1931); Thunder Over Arizona (1956); To Be Takei (2014); Tom Turk and Daffy (1944); Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Too Many Cooks (1931); Too Many Wives (1937); Top Hat (1935); Topaze (1933); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); Tovarich (1937); Transgression (1931); Traveling Husbands (1931); Trolls (2016); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Trumbo (2015); Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940); Two Alone (1934); Two in Revolt (1936); Two in the Dark (1936); Two on a Guillotine (1965); UHF (1989); Uncertain Glory (1944); Up in Arms (1944); Up Periscope (1959); Uranya (2006); Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000); Utah Blaine (1957); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Virginia City (1940); Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990); Wagon Wheels West (1943); Wanted! Jane Turner (1936); Watch on the Rhine (1943); Way Back Home (1931); We Are Not Alone (1939); We Who Are About to Die (1936); Wednesday’s Child (1934); Wells Fargo Days (1944); We’re on the Jury (1937); We’re Only Human (1935); We’re Rich Again (1934); West of the Pecos (1934); Westward Passage (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); Where Sinners Meet (1934); White Banners (1938); White Heat (1949); White Shoulders (1931); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Winter Meeting (1948); Wise Girl (1937); Without Honor (1949); Without Orders (1936); WKRP in Cincinnati (1981); Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993); Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943); Yellowstone Kelly (1959); You Can’t Beat Love (1937); You Can’t Buy Luck (1937); Young Bride (1932); Young Donovan’s Kid (1931); Young Man with a Horn (1950); Youngblood Hawke (1964); Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981).

Recommended reading – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2002):

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

by Christiane Kubrick.
Foreword by Steven Spielberg.

Published in 2002.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0821228153
ISBN-13: 978-0821228159

Description:

Few cinematic figures can boast the scope, breadth, talent, and influence of Stanley Kubrick. Visionary, auteur, artist, director.... His brilliant canon of films is unsurpassed in modern cinema, from the futuristic vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the dark artistry of A Clockwork Orange, from the black comedy of Dr. Strangelove to the psychological horror of The Shining, from the stark realism of Paths of Glory to the dreamlike romance of Eyes Wide Shut.

Now, the astonishing career of this cinematic legend is remembered in perhaps the most fitting way: in pictures. With an accompanying commentary by his widow, Christiane, Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Pictures is a wide-ranging and wonderful collection. Featuring a wealth of never-before-seen photographs, it offers a fascinating glimpse of Kubrick behind the camera, from his directorial beginnings in the early 1950s to his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, completed just six days before his death in March 1999.

Stephen King, on writing:


If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others; read a lot and write a lot.
There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

- Stephen King.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Inspirational quotes on nature – video 2:


Inspirational quotes on nature – video 2:


At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
– Toni Morrison.

Water is the driving force of all nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci.

Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
– Charlotte Bronte.

Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein.

I have found, through years of practice,
that people garden in order to make something grow;
to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary,
to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark.
Through gardening,
we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.
– Julie Moir Messervy.

It is in the wild places,
where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky,
the human spirit is fed.
– Art Wolfe.

Nature's music is never over;
her silences are pauses,
not conclusions.
– Mary Webb.

Come forth into the light of things,
let nature be your teacher.
– William Wordsworth.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful
than apple–leaves with an early moon.
– Alice Meynell.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific
about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft;
a certain free-margin, or even vagueness – ignorance, credulity –
helps your enjoyment of these things.
– Walt Whitman.

Those who dwell,
as scientists or laymen,
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth
are never alone or weary of life.
Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives,
their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment
and to renewed excitement in living.
– Rachel Carson.

Make a positive difference.
Conserve nature.
Conserve our world.
Before it’s too late.

April 22 is Earth Day.
Make every day … Earth Day.

Photographs by Jack Kost.
Video by Jack Kost
2025

Music credit:
Birds
By freesound_community
From Pixabay.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Inspirational quotes on nature – video 1:


To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
– Audrey Hepburn.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
– Christian Nestell Bovee.

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas.
– Emily Dickinson.

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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
– Anne Frank.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
– Washington Irving.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
– Frank Lloyd Wright.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
– Aristotle.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
– Wendell Berry.

Earth laughs in flowers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence ... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
– Mother Teresa.

Make a positive difference.
Conserve nature.
Conserve our world.
Before it’s too late.
April 22 is Earth Day.
Make every day … Earth Day.

Photographs by Jack Kost.

Video by Jack Kost
2025

Music credit:
Birds
By freesound_community
From Pixabay.