These Four Walls

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.    
—Pam Brown

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.  —Miriam Beard

(photographer: Susie E.)

Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked. ”Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat. ”I don’t know,” Alice answered. ”Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”  —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

(photographer: Susie E.)

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us is a little universe. Those are some of the things that molecules do given 4 billion years of evolution. We are each of us a multitude.  —Carl Sagan 

(photographer Susie E.)

It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten  —George Orwell, 1984 

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.  –Friedrich Nietzsche

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“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish. All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake. Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.”  –Hermann Hesse

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“Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place … Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn’t make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.”   —Steve Grand

(photographer: Susie E.)