Thursday, June 21, 2012

Reflecting upon Humanity and Nature at Cheekwood


                                        selected photographs from Cheekwood:







The Conch House (inspired by Lord of the Flies)

a sphinx








                                                    The Ocean of Notions Treehouse:


                                             
                                                              The Rainbow Fish


                                                        
                                                                A Hobbit's Tale:




                                               Henry David Thoreau's Walden Treehouse:






The Giver Clubhouse:

                                           The Jolly Roger Clubhouse:

The treehouse exhibits will be hosted at Cheekwood until September 3rd 2012:
http://www.cheekwood.org/

Gazing at nature inspired artwork promotes healing and relieves anxiety:
http://emergency-medicine.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2012/511/6

Mark 6:31 (NIV) Jesus said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.” -Henry David Thoreau

"To be awake is to be alive." -Henry David Thoreau

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." -Henry David Thoreau

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html#IDReE50K0mY3V7rO.99

1 comment:

  1. Lauren, Nora and I went on tues to see the tree houses. we had a blast. While the flowers and slide were cool, I was a bit disappointed in the hobbit house. I wanted more.
    Miss you brother. Keep up the fight.

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