Da natureza

Ivan Bilibin, Olive Trees (1929)

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“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
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Henry David Thoreau

Tempos I

Ivan Bilibin, Crimea. Mountains (1916)

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“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”

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Aldo Leopold

Dragões

Bule - Satsuma - Japão (séc. XIX, Museu de Aveiro)

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«Animals are a manifestation of the planet's imagining, and dragons are a manifestation of Earth's imagining that takes place in the human mind.»

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Alison Hawthorne Deming - via Myth & Moor

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Katsushika Hokusai, Dragon

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Ivan Bilibin, Zmey Gorynych (1912)

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M.C. Escher, Dragon