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It's said 'a picture is worth a thousand words!' 'Endangered Beauty' tells the stories of some of the most rare and precious native plants and animals in the Midwest. Capturing these perfect images took tens of thousands of patient hours out in the f
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”
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“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?”
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“Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.”
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“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years … the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
― The Sense of Wonder
― The Sense of Wonder
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