“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
-- from "Art," published in Essays: First Series, 1841
Monday, November 16, 2009
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About Me
- Mark
- I'm a professional historian, though my real passions lie in the art of photography and the freedom of travel. Armed with camera and backpack, I've visited all fifty of the US states ... and a total of 65 countries on six continents.
How true! Beauty is where you choose to find it. If you don't have your heart open to search for it, you will only see the ugliness, which sometimes is so prominent in the foreground, it is hard to see past.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Jen ... I've had so much fun looking up quotes for this thing, and this is one of my very favorites so far.
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