Com o Sol em Caranguejo

Federico Babina, Zodiac De Sign

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12 Caranguejos famosos (entre os meus preferidos)

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Hellen Keller (Activista, nascida a 27 de Junho de 1880)

Mel Brooks (Actor e Realizador, nascido a 28 de Junho de 1926)

Dalai Lama (Líder Espiritual, nascido a 6 de Julho de 1935)

Marc Chagall (Pintor, nascido a 6 de Julho de 1887)

Camille Pissarro (Pintor, nascido a 10 de Julho de 1830)

Carl Orff (Compositor, nascido a 10 de Julho de 1895)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Pintor, nascido, a 11 de Julho de 1834)

Henry David Thoreau (Poeta, nascido a 12 de Julho de 1817)

Miguel Ventura Terra (Arquitecto, nascido a 14 de Julho de 1866)

Rembrandt (Pintor, nascido a 15 de Julho de 1606)

Nelson Mandela (Político, nascido a 18 de Julho de 1918)

Edgar Degas (Pintor, nascido a 19 de Julho de 1834)

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Nota: Escolher 12 foi difícil, porque há imensos, e só entre aqueles de quem eu mais gosto. Mas, como comecei o jogo assim, decidi continuá-lo. No entanto, acrescento, só para exemplo: Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Camille Corot, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Giorgio de Chirico, George Orwell, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Neruda, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Edward Hopper, Meryl Streep, Ringo Starr, Brian May, Bill Watterson, Benedict Cumberbatch e Daniel Radcliffe.

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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

Natureza

Jamie Wyeth, Steps (aguarela, 1972)

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«A grande natureza preservará o mundo.»

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Henry David Thoreau,

citado por Iria de Fátima Rodrigues Amado Vaz, As Origens do Ambientalismo em Portugal. A Liga para a Protecção da Natureza. 1948-1974, Lisboa, 2000. Dissertação de Mestrado, FCT-UNL., p. 38.

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Georgios Jakobides, Girl reading (c. 1882)

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«If we have thus desecrated ourselves, — as who has not? — the remedy will be by wariness and devotion to reconsecrate ourselves, and make once more a fane of the mind. We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. (...)»

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Henry David Thoreau (1854).

O Tempo

James Jacques Tissot, Le Journal (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes)

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«Read not the Times, read the Eternities».

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Henry David Thoreau.

O Inverno

Elizabeth Sonrel.

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«One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter».

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Henry David Thoreau.

Arte e Natureza

Carl Larsson, Autumn (1884, in Nordic Thoughts).

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«This world is but a canvas for our imagination».

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Henry David Thoreau (in Good Reads).

Natureza

Ilya Ostroukhov, Golden Autumn (1887, in The Glory of Russian Painting).

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«We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature».

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (in Good reads).

Sobre a versatilidade da abóbora

Pode ser doce

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ou sopa

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um Jack-o'-Lantern ou uma tarte

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ou "alguém" que traz presentes

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ou um bom assento

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«I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion».

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Henry DavidThoreau

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Ou até uma carruagem

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Carl Holsoe, Lady in an interior.

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Carl Holsoe, Girl Reading in a Sunlit Room (Connaught Brown, Londres).

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Carl Holsoe, Reading in the Morning Light.

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«Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all».

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Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Livros

Gustave Doré, «La Lecture des contes en famille», ilustração de abertura para os Contos de Perrault (1862).

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«Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations». 

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods.

A Natureza

Pavia (Alentejo).

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«We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature».

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.

Castelos

Bernardo Bellotto, The Fortress of Königstein (1756-58, in Gandalf's Gallery)

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Canaletto, Alnwick Castle (c. 1746-1752, in Elsewhere)

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«If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them».

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods.

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«It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see».

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Henry David Thoreau.

Comunhão com a natureza

Thomas Edwin Mostyn, Sitting on a Gate, Bushey (1893).

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«Simplify, simplify».

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854).

Água

António Carneiro, Reflexos (1921, CAM-FCG).

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«A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature».
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Henry David Thoreau.

Trabalhar a pedra

Fotografia de Margarida Elias (Serra de Montejunto, 2009).
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«The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time».
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Henry David Thoreau