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Times of Our Lives

Afghanistan

“Time, which changes people,
does not alter the image we have of them.”
– Marcel Proust

Italy
Afghanistan
Pakistan

“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Portugal
India

“Time has a wonderful way of showing
us what really matters.”
– Margaret Peters

United States
India
Afghanistan

Time is free, but it’s priceless.
You can’t own it, but you can use it.
You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.
– Harvey MacKay

Poland
Ireland
Iceland

“With endless time, nothing is special.
With no loss or sacrifice,
we can’t appreciate what we have.”
– Mitch Albom

India
France

“The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy

Russia
Russia


“Time is a created thing.
To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say

‘I don’t want to.’”
– Lao Tzu

Vietnam
United States

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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D E V O T I O N

Burma

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

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Chicago, IL, USA

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Polka Galerie
Paris, France

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Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

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Pisa, Italy

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Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

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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

Steve’s book, Animals, published by Taschen, is available here: 
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Water – The Essence of Life

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
Margaret Atwood

Weligama, Sri Lanka

Croatia

Cochin/Kochi, Kerala, South India

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden

Bencota, Sri Lanka

Nepal

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Queenstown, New Zealand

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Laozi

Umbria, Italy

Inle Lake, Burma/Myanmar

A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius

Rijeka, Croatia

Munich, Germany

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley

Dal Lake, Kashmir

Dominican Republic

Cascata Delle Marmore, Umbria, Italy

When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before and the
first of what is still to come.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sulu Sea, Philippines

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
Lord Byron

Umbria, Italy

Water is the soul of the Earth.
W. H. Auden

Sankei-en Garden, Yokohama, Japan

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Niger River, Mali

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans …
– Khalil Gibran

Fiji

Madrid, Spain

Water is also one of the four elements,
the most beautiful of God’s creations.
It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a
tendency to descend,
and flows with great readiness. 

John of Damascus, Syrian monk

Cape Town, South Africa

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Ireland

In time and with water, everything changes.
Leonardo da Vinci

Tibet

Tahiti, French Polynesia

All water has a perfect memory and is forever
trying to get back to where it was.

– Toni Morrison

Australia

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

California, USA

Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water?
All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and
it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

Zora Neale Hurston

Havana, Cuba

Fiji

Bombay, India

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller

Suri Tribe, Tulget, Omo Valley, Ethiopia

To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.

Masaru Emoto

Rajasthan, India

Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.

Maude Barlow

India

India

Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau