Inspired words

I've been so inspired by the quotes I read on flickr today. Several of my contacts had such beautiful quotations that I was inspired to dig up some great ones that I like and go back to time and again. All three quotes are ones that I have used in a Blurb book of my photographs, which I printed out last year. They suit both life and photography quite well!

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
--Margot Fonteyn

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
--Berenice Abbott

"I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
--Diane Ackerman

The above photo is of a flowering simbal tree in a park in Chandigarh that I took in March 2008. This park has some lovely monuments as it was the place where Nehru was brought to be shown the masterplan of the city. I went to nursery school nearby and have played in this park since I was a little kid. Incidentally, my father lived in a house facing this park and played here too. And even more incidentally, my parents now live a street away from the park and I love going back there on each visit home :-)