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Faiena is a woman from Belize

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It is lumber, man--all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment's freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment's rest for dreamy laziness--no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o'er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.


~J.K.Jerome ~ Three Men in a Boat

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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruysch,_Rachel_-_F...

    Rated Aug 14 2010 • 3 reviews • gardening, painting, art, still life, fruit • wikimedia.org




    Ruysch, Rachel - Flower Still-Life


    P.S. thanks a lot Saspeirs -Hayk for the idea and inspiration to post still life


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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Jordaens-_Sa...

    Rated Aug 14 2010 • 1 review • painting, ecommerce, art, girl, satyr, basket • wikimedia.org




    Jacob Jordaens- Satyr and Girl with a Basket of Fruit.



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  • Ernest Thompson Seton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Aug 14 2010 • 2 reviews • scouting, author, wildlife artist • wikipedia.org


    Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA.

    Legacy

    Seton is honoured in Canada. E.T. Seton Park is a park in Toronto and operated by the City of Toronto. Obtained in the early 1960s as the site of future Metro Toronto Zoo, the land was later used to establish parkland and home to the Ontario Science Centre.




    Drawing from Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton, Edition: 5, Published by C. Scribner's sons, 1898, Original from the University of California, Digitized by GoogleBooks Nov 6, 2008, 358 pages

    Picture taken from the chapter Lobo, the King of Currumpaw.



    Drawing from Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Doubleday (1903)
    Digitized from University of California, Berkeley.




  • The Judgment of Solomon by Nicolas Poussin -...

    Rated Jun 14 2010 • 1 review • art history, paintings, painter • artinthepicture.com


    Nicolas Poussin

    Nicolas Poussin (June 15, 1594-November 19, 1665) was a French painter. Poussin was the founder and greatest practitioner of 17th century French classical painting. His work symbolizes the virtues of clarity, logic, and order. It has influenced the course of French art up to the present day.




    The Judgment of Solomon 1649
    by Nicolas Poussin


    The Dance to the Music of Time 1640
    by Nicolas Poussin



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  • The Holy Family by Nicolas Poussin - ArtinthePicture.com

    Rated Jun 14 2010 • 1 review • art history, paintings, nicolas poussin • artinthepicture.com


    Paintings
    by Nicolas Poussin



    The Holy Family 1649
    by Nicolas Poussin

    Eliezer and Rebecca 1648
    by Nicolas Poussin

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  • Yasunari Kawabata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Rated Jun 14 2010 • 2 reviews • biographies, quotes, yasunari kawabata • wikipedia.org



    Yasunari Kawabata (14 June 1899 - 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.


    How ever alienated one may be from the world, suicide is not a form of enlightenment. However admirable he may be, the man who commits suicide is far from the realm of the saint.

    Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)

    Nobel lecture (12 December 1968) as translated in Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980 (1993)

    * Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.

    * The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

    When we see the beauty of the snow, when we see the beauty of the full moon, when we see the beauty of the cherries in bloom, when in short we brush against and are awakened by the beauty of the four seasons, it is then that we think most of those close to us, and want them to share the pleasure.

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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raimondo_Madrazo_-...

    Rated Jun 13 2010 • 1 review • painting, arts, art • wikimedia.org




    Raimondo Madarazo - Fond Memories


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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lefebvre,_Jules_Jo...

    Rated Jun 13 2010 • 2 reviews • art history, painting, portrait, woman, academic french • wikimedia.org




    Lefebvre, Jules Joseph - La jeune rieuse - 1861.



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  • John Bartlett (1820 - 1905) - Find A Grave Memorial

    Rated Jun 13 2010 • 1 review • john bartlett • findagrave.com

    John Bartlett
    I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
    John Bartlet



    Birth: Jun. 14, 1820
    Death: Dec. 3, 1905

    Author. He was famed his compiling and publishing a work containing famous quotes in 1855. His "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" are still being printed with annual updates in the present day.

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    John Bartlett (1820 - 1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

    Page 780

    Edward Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith) Bulwer-Lytton. (1831 -1891) (continued)

    He may live without books, - what is knowledge but grieving?
    He may live without hope - what is hope but deceiving?
    He may live without love, - what is passion but pining?
    But where is the man that can live without dining?
    Lucile. Part i. Canto ii.

    7688
    Those true eyes
    Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
    The sweet soul shining through them. 1
    Lucile. Part ii. Canto ii.

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    The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
    May hope to achieve it before life is done;
    But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
    Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
    A harvest of barren regrets.
    Lucile. Part ii. Canto ii.

    7690
    Thought alone is eternal.
    Lucile. Part ii. Canto vi.

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    Let any man show the world that he feels
    Afraid of its bark and - it will fly at his heels:
    Let him fearlessly face it, - it will leave him alone:
    But it will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.
    Lucile. Part ii. Canto vii.


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