Time Lapse - Karst Country

Easy to know that diamonds are precious
good to learn that rubies have depth
but more to see that pebbles are miraculous

Josef Albers



I haven't posted a time lapse video for a while - until this one caught my eye.

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Time Lapse - Milky Way

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

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The mind is a strange machine ...

Events only become experiences through the interest we take in them

Bertrand Russell

“The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways, but without material from the external world it is powerless, and (...) must seize its material for itself, since events only become experiences through the interest we take in them; if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them. The man, therefore, whose attention is turned within finds nothing worthy of his notice, whereas the man whose attention is turned outward can find within, in those rare moments when he examines his soul, the most varied and interesting assortment of ingredients being dissected and recombined into beautiful and instructive patterns."

from: Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930

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Space Abstraction

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Paracelsus

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Time Lapse - Wind of Impermanence

All the while, across the face of the earth
moves the restless wind of impermanence,
dissolving all that it touches.

 

The blossom that opens in the morning
is scattered by the evening breeze,
and the dew, condensed in hours of darkness
before dawn, is dispelled by the rays of the morning sun.

Heedless or willfully ignorant of this
procession of changes, we dream of prosperity
all through life and, without understanding
the nature of transience, hope for longevity.

All the while, across the face of the earth
moves the restless wind of impermanence,
dissolving all that it touches.

Hōnen (法然 1133-1212)

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Time Lapse - Makro Kingdom

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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Time Lapse - Exploding Flowers

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Robin Williams

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Time Lapse - Rising Moon

Thou art hidden from mine eye.
Yet my sadness thou well knowest ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe