Nature’s Art and Architecture

For nature is the art of God.
– Thomas Browne

The greatest cathedral of all is nature itself.
It simultaneously humbles and pulls up giant emotions
that cannot be fully expressed in mere words.
– Rodney Cobb

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.
It will never fail you.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have power to cut
stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Nature seems to have poured forth her
riches so without calculation,
merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
– Margaret Fuller

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries
and the adventure of experience in nature.
– Ansel Adams

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade
in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon,
a pageant in the evening.
– Wallace Stevens

Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates
appreciation and gratitude.
– Louie Schwartzberg

Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say /
So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
– Emily Dickinson

New Book: Steve McCurry:  A Life in Pictures
The selection of photographs includes Steve’s best-known shots and
more than 100 previously unpublished images.  

Italy – Mondadori/Electa

Germany – Knesebeck publishers

 UK  – Laurence King Publishers

US – Laurence King Publishers – November 20

 France,  November 8 – La Martiniere

Also included are personal notes, telegrams and
visual ephemera from his travels and assignments,
all accompanied by his sister’s text.