Printable Vintage Art: Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur) by August Neven du Mont

Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur), 1908
by August Neven du Mont (1866–1909)

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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
― Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

My digitally enhanced version of the above painting can be downloaded as a high-res 7” x 5” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Vintage Nature Illustration: Hummingbird Parents with Eggs at their Nest 1

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
― Ransom Riggs

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
― Rebecca Solnit

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
― Mitch Albom

19th century illustration of both male and female hummingbirds perched around their nest in the branches of a flowering vine. There is a clutch of eggs resting in the depths of the nest, waiting to be hatched. 8” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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