“Warm Summer Night” | Anthony Satori
“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, to stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, to be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough… I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.”
— Walt Whitman
“Flower” | Anthony Satori
Aspire toward simplicity, purity, compassion and beauty. If you strive for these things in all that you do, you will become a vital conduit for the wondrous nature of the universe.
“Blackfriars Bridge at Night (London)” | Anthony Satori
“O night, O sweetest time, though dark of hue, with peace you force all restless work to end. Those who exalt you see and understand, and he is sound of mind who honors you. You send to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend up to the highest.”
— Michelangelo
“The Lightness of Being” | Anthony Satori
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch
“The Sea, Half-Held by the Night” | Anthony Satori
“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night… You, sea! I resign myself to you… Sea of stretch’d ground swells, Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths, Sea of the brine of life… Howler and scooper of storms… I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.”
— Walt Whitman
“Ocean Light” | Anthony Satori
“O me! O life! Of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish — what good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer. That you are here — that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
— Walt Whitman
“The Voice Under All Silences” | Anthony Satori
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness; the truth more first than sun more last than star.” – E. E. Cummings
“Out There” | Anthony Satori
“Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it’s finally me, where it’s in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day. I get hold of it so it’ll never run off. I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.” — Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
It was suggested to me that a proper introduction was in order for my recent book Animal Spirits: A Collection of Nature Photographs. So, please enjoy the short film above! (run time: approx. 2 minutes; video has sound) All of the images in the video are featured in the book, plus many more… in fact, it contains almost two hundred color and black-and-white nature photographs of animals from around the world. If just for the Emerson texts alone, however, it is easily worth the price of admission: the book features a generous selection of mind-expanding quotes carefully curated from the writings of noted transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
To find the book on Amazon, please click the Animal Spirits image in the right hand margin. Or use the link here: Animal Spirits by Anthony Satori.
Enjoy!
“Red Satin” | Anthony Satori
“True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a seed and gives color and scent to a flower.” – Khalil Gibran
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