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The Kingdom of Trees

Between heaven and earth, between mankind and the stars, lies the kingdom of trees; between that which gives us food, housing and work on the one hand and that which is incomprehensible
and unaccountable on the other.

–Trees in the History of Civilization

Trees are Sentinels
Guarding, Nurturing, Protecting
Bastions of Dignity
Breathing life
Providing shelter
Asking for nothing
Sacrificing everything

-K. Earle

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them,
can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach
undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-Hermann Hesse, Wandering

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary
than a beautiful, strong tree.

-H. Hesse, ibid

Trees, proud standing people
stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying
glorious attention, breathing light.
strength shelter timeless confidence
bending and firm comforting …

-Wallace Stevens

Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing in time to come.
How do we know? They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee that
singing will ever be.

-Wendell Berry

No wonder the hills and groves were
God’s first temples…

-John Muir

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire,
in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a
dancing tongue of flame
to warm the heart.

-Hal Borland

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

-John Muir

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Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

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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Portraits of Friendship

“Wherever we are, it is our friends
that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
– Gloria Naylor

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington

“What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”
– Nigerian Proverb

“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at
last a drop which makes it run over;
so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one
which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

“Faithful friends are hard to find.”
– William Shakespeare

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.
It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

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.

More about Devotion here –
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Afghanistan and Ukraine.
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Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023 – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 – Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 – Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY, USA

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 Sat, Mar 9, 2024

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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.

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

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

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

A horse is worth more than riches.
– Spanish Proverb

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

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

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.

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Overcoming: Our Greatest Glory

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date March 29, 2020
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Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller

Porbandar, India

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius

A man recycles bombshells into flowerpots in Kayan, Afghanistan

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things –
of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness,
our patience and our resilience, and in the end,
our ultimate desires.
– Sheri L. Dew

A good half of the art of living is resilience.
– Alain de Botton

Make-believe conquers the tools of war as children clamber over an abandoned anti-aircraft gun in Beirut, Lebanon, 1982. These tools of war became an improvised playground demonstrating the resilience of children. No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment, children need to play. Whether it is splashing in puddles or climbing on abandoned tanks, their world of make-believe is almost as important as food and shelter.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
– Bern Williams

A blind musician at the temple of Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia

This Tibetan man from Lhasa would walk five miles every day around the local Monastery as part of his Buddhist meditation practice.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.
– Thomas Edison

After the monsoon, this Indonesian woman attempts to rescue her rice plants. With the blackened earth flattened by the retreating floodwaters and trees stripped of their leaves, it is a bleak scene. The woman’s efforts are necessary for the continued subsistence of her family.

Students attend class in a partially destroyed building in central Kabul, Afghanistan.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
– Victor Hugo

Two young boys carry wood to their homes for the family’s cook fire.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
– Albert Bandura

Man carries his injured friend in Kabul, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan, was once known as a city of gardens. Afghans of all ages love to grow flowers and use them to decorate everything from their homes to their bicycles.

A doctor with his patient in hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

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Our Faces: Unpublished Portraits

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date February 21, 2020
17 Comments on Our Faces: Unpublished Portraits

Portraits reveal a desire for human connection,
a desire so strong that people who know they will never see me again open themselves to the camera, all in the hope that at the other end someone will be watching, someone who will laugh or suffer with them.

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Portraits of Innocence

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.
– Wess Stafford

Every child comes with the message that
God is not yet discouraged of man.
– Rabindranath Tagore

You must work — we all must work —
to make this world worthy of its children.
– Pablo Casals

Children are the living messages we send to a
time we will not see.
– President John F. Kennedy

The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
– Fred Rogers

The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments —
tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.
– Louis Pasteur

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Essence of Life
Nantucket, Massachusetts
July 18 – 28, 2019

Le Monde de Steve McCurry
Lyon, France
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Visages de L’Innocence
Barbizon, France
Ends September 22, 2019

Steve McCurry: Animals
Aosta, Italy
Ends October 5, 2019

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Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.”
– Victor Hugo

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to
embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
– Thomas Merton

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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