Category: landscape

“Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.” Popova on Tolstoy and Thich Nhat Hahn.

“You see, I am alive, I am alive

I stand in good relation to the earth

I stand in good relation to the gods

I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful

N. Scott Momaday, “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”

“Delay our tomorrow so our road

may extend and space may widen for us, […]

you are so much yourself … and I am

so much other than myself right here before you”

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another. Translated by Fady Joudah

“… I found

The failing olive and the cajoling flute,

Where I knelt down, as if in prayer,

And sucked a moist pit

From the marl

Of the earth in a sacred cove.

Edward Hirsch, A Greek Island

He who steals the land does not surprise us by stealing a library.
He who kills innocent civilians does not surprise us by killing paintings.
He who destroyed a whole homeland does not surprise us when he destroys a wall on which we hung our paintings.

The enemy of the Palestinan tree,
the enemy of the Palestinian painting,
the enemy of the Palestinian poem is,
first and foremost,
the enemy of the Palestinan homeland.

-Mahmoud Darwish in ??????????? ???????? (Kassem Hawal, 1984) via bidoun

“Inspiring both wonder and dread in equal proportion.”

“Slow, careful, focused. Avoiding damage.” (JC)