Essaouira

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he wants to see.

(Gilbert K Chesterton)

Now more than ever do I realise that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.

(Isabelle Eberhardt)

Versailles

"You would do well during your stay in Paris to visit Versailles"

(Father Claude de Varennes. 1639)

The garden must be in harmony with the conformation of the land, that is, in accord with the situation whether it is in the mountains, on the seashore or in the desert such as the American southwest.

(Alexander leBlond on the gardening rules of Le Notre)

Paris

Building art is a synthesis of life in a materialised form.

(Alvar Aalto)

I don't divide architecture, landscape, and gardening; to me they are all one.

(luis Barragan)

Paris

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be really elegant. 

(Honore de Balzac)

I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world.

(Charles Dickens)

Paris

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in History,beauty, and in the point of life.

(Thomas Jefferson)

"That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me".

(Adriane in Midnight in Paris. Woody Allen)

Me by myself

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

(Confucius)

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life , and every setting sun be to you as its close.

(john Ruskin)

Bedruthan Steps

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

(Claude Monet)

Painting,n.:The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

(Ambrose Bierce)

Tulips

"I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move".

(Georgia O'Keeffe)

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.

(The Koran)