Month: April 2020

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Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals is a musical composition by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886.

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Svalbard, Arctic
Omo Valley, Ethiopia

 

Wadi Rum, Jordan

 

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
– Indian Proverb

Serchul, Tibet

 

Turkey

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances, 1848

Johannesburg, South Africa
Kashmir

A horse is worth more than riches.
– Spanish Proverb

Burma/Myanmar

 

Australia

 

Varanasi, India

 

Mexico

 

Mongolia

 

Morocco

 

Pakistan

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
-Russian Proverb

Paraguay
Tibet

 

Thailand

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.
– John Donne

Sri Lanka

 

India
Moray, Scotland
Ecuador, Galapagos

 

Mandalay, Myanmar/Burma

 

Ireland

 

Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan

 

Svalbard, Arctic

Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

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The music is from the final movement of the
the composition called the Swan.

Denmark

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New York: Tough, Resilient, Unbowed

New York is the true capital of America.
Every New Yorker knows it,
and by God, we always shall.
– Edward Rutherfurd

 

If London is a watercolor,
New York is an oil painting.
– Peter Shaffer

When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.
–  Jimmy Breslin

  More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.
– Marilyn J. Appleberg

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but
New York is always hopeful.
–  Dorothy Parker

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, and races into a small island and adds music and the
accompaniment of internal engines.
– E.B. White

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Soul of Italy – A Tribute from Steve McCurry

The best part about Italy is the people. The hospitality of the Italian people is without rival.
There’s no friendlier place on the planet.
– Steve McCurry

Rome, Italy
Sicily, Italy
Saint-Pierre Castle, Aosta Valley, Italy
Umbria, Italy

I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history.
Just everything comes together there.
– Frances Mayes

Rome, Italy

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
– Rebecca Solnit

Venice, Italy
Camino, Italy
Rome, Italy
Sicily, Italy

A man who has not been to Italy is always
conscious of an inferiority.
–  Samuel Johnson

Sicily, Italy
Venice, Italy
Rome, Italy
Umbria, Italy

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
–  Giuseppe Verdi

Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Perugia, Italy
Rome, Italy
Umbria, Italy

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Assisi, Italy
Perugia, Italy
Naples, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy

 

Umbria, Italy
Forte di Bard, Italy

Italy is a dream that keeps returning
for the rest of your life.
– Anna Akhmatova

Italy

 

Tuscany, Italy
Venice, Italy
Venice, Italy
Forte di Bard, Italy

Open my heart and you will see,
‘Graved inside of it, Italy.
– Robert Browning

Italy
Sicily, Italy
Rome, Italy
Camino, Italy
Italy

 

Umbria, Italy
Rome, Italy
Venice, Italy

Nothing in the world that you ever heard of Venice, is equal to the magnificent and stupendous reality.
– Charles Dickens
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