I suppose,’ thought Harriet, ‘she had one of those small, summery brains, that flower early and run to seed.’
Dorothy L Sayers, Gaudy Night
FOTO – ARMIDALE GARDEN 2006
Daily Archives: February 13, 2009
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.” Robert Fulgum.
FOTO – ARMIDALE FENCES
"Like our dawn, merely a sob of light." Victor Hugo.
Koel near window,
wakes me up calling his friends;
welcome, dawn herald.
http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~apert/poems.html
FOTO – BILAMBIL DAWN 2005
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
FOTO – BRUCE SANDERS IN THE 1920s SYDNEY
Ferns that drop their tears Over the young streams. William Butler Yeats.
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only
the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in
the gloom, there’s light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when
a giant falls, leaving a little space … then there’s a race — between
the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings
below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make
your own space.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
FOTO – FERNS MAD O’BRIAN
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. Audrey Hepburn
‘Aren’t two sparrows sold for only a cent? But your Father knows when any one of them falls to the ground.’
(Matthew 10:29)
FOTO – COUSIN META
ÔÝÊå ãä ÇáÌãá ÚÑÌ. Choose the neighbours before the house. ARABIC.
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on FIRE, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Edmund Burke. 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
foto – BILAMBIL HEIGHTS 2007
Even a one-inch insect has a five tenths of a soul.
What I can’t do by might,
I’ll do it by flight.
Où il n’y a que des coups à gagner,
Il faut savoir s’esquiver.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/proverbes/anglais.htm
foto -BILAMBIL FERN 2009 MAD O’BRIAN
"The best teacher is one who makes herself progressively unnecessary."
Ellen Key, 1911
‘He finds forked trees growing from jungles inside his brain Trees that draw him further down feminine Atmospheres, where intricately coloured birds float out singing Where earth embraces and fills his being.’ Adamson.
猿も木から落ちる
In English alphabet
Saru mo ki kara ochiru.
Even monkeys fall from trees.
Anybody can make a mistake
Aeth y newydd ar gyrn a phibau. The news spread on horns and pipes
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
FOTO – TELSTRA’S LANDLINE SOLUTION IN BILAMBIL 2008
Every horse thinks his own pack the heaviest.
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. Mother Teresa
FOTO – AUCHENFLOWER 2008
Twi proverb: okoto nwo anoma :From ghana meaning: Birds give birth but not to crabs
“As the old bird sings, the young ones twitter.”
FOTO – BUTCHER BIRD IN BILAMBIL 2009
Even if rock ‘n’ roll music died tomorrow, it would take several weeks for the sound to fade away.
Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better. Linda Ellerbee
FOTO – BILAMBIL PORCH MUSIC 2008
It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any. Mae West
Without justice the weak are defenseless. Without mercy justice is a robot that knows not what it does.
FOTO – SHERIFF’S OFFICE GRAFTON NSW 2008
Boys and sugar-cane grow up as enemies.
Saakar Disate, Godi Naay Disat.
Translation: Sugar cubes can be seen, sweetness cannot be seen. INDIAN.
FOTO – TUMBULGUM SUGAR CANE ON TWEED. 2008.
