Ci sono cento gli orsi bruni in Italia Centrale.
"The nation that draws the most materials and provisions from the earth, fabricates the most, and sells the most of productions and fabrics to foreign nations, must be, and will be, the great power of the earth." -William Seward, 1856. I've just been thinking a lot these past weeks, what if things like this were never thought by those who came so far before us? Making a collage to visually represent America's past and present also put thoughts like this in my head. Much of what I've read for school this semester has been super interesting, but these are just a few quotes that are still sticking with me, ones I really really liked and hadn't heard before.
"The day, immesurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields. To have lived through all its sunny hours, seems longevity enough."- Emerson's Nature.
"How many of our men of fortune...surrender their birthright, for a mess of pottage, by resorting to costly and needless luxuries, which consume, without satisfying- while Art invites to her feast of beauty, where indulgence never cloys, and entails no penalty of self-reproach!"
"It is better to make shoes, or dig potatoes, or follow any other honest calling to secure a livelihood, than seek the pursuit of Art for the sake of gain."
- Asher B. Durand's Letters on Landscape Painting. I like that name, Asher.
"And, although an enlightened and increasing people have broken in upon the solitude, and with activity and power wrought changes that seem magical, yet the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness" - Thomas Cole's Essay on American Scenery. I loved reading this essay. The whole thing makes me want to go live outside forever. Or at least do something to save our wildness.
I’ve noted before that podcasts are among my 
