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Snowy Egret
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Wood Stork
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
Double Crested Cormorant
Canaveral Lock – July 2018
“Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt”
― John Muir
Black Crown Night Heron
Canaveral Lock – July 2018
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir
Artic Birds
Glacier Bay National Park, June 2018
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God’s eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.
– John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938) page 299.
Common Yellow Throat
Black Point Drive – May 2018
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boat Tail Grackle
Retention Pond – Orlando, FL – May 2018
“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mottled Ducks
Drainage Pond – Orlando, FL – May 2018
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Neigborhood Peacock
May 2018
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Green Heron
Black Point Drive – May 2018
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
― Dr. Seuss
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