Tag Archives: chris dahlquist photography

Easy to Overlook


 

“Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.” — Paul Hawken

Chris Dahlquist photograph of golden wheat fields

“Mile Marker 512″, 35″x51”


 

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A Quiet Moment Just Doing Nothing


 

“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?” — Ralph Marston

Chris Dahlquist photograph of a pond in the Flint Hills

“Mile Marker 444″, 35″x51”


 

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The Vanishing Road


 

“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.” —  Richard Le Gallienne

photograph of a solitary road

“Mile Marker 509, 35″x51”


 

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Watching the Clouds


 

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” —  John Lubbock

Chris Dahlquist photograph of the prairie

“Mile Marker 513″, 35″x51”


 

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Take your Time


 

“There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.” — Penn Jillette

COntemporary landscape photograph by Chris Dahlquist

“Mile Marker 528″, 35″x51”


 

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Better Things to Do


 

“Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.” —  Nancy Gibbs

Golden wheat, soybeans, and rain beams on the horizon

“Mile Marker 523″, 35″x51”


 

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It is Not Far


“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”
Walt Whitman

Chris Dahlquist photograph of a lone road between the fields

“Mile Marker 469″, 35″x51”


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A promissory note…

“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” — Hal Borland

Mile Marker 515, 35x51

Mile Marker 515, 35×51

Summer does come…

“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” — Thomas Carlyle

Mile Marker 523, 35x51

Mile Marker 523, 35×51

An individual heart shock…

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh I love this painting because it’s universal’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to mankind’. That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. An individual heart shock. . . .A really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Mile Marker 19, 22"x34"

Mile Marker 19, 22″x34″