The Magical Island - Photo/Text: Betina Huber Öland 

The Magical Island - Photo/Text: Betina Huber Öland

The Magical Island - Photo/Text: Betina Huber Öland

Carl von Linné


"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them"
Carolus Linnaeus

Mere om Linne: http://www.sydsverige.dk/?pageID=182

"All nature is but art unknown to thee"
Alexander Pope

"If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often"
Johannes Tauler


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af en kande

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds"
Edward Abbey


Betina Huber 09 © / Skitse fra Gammel Holtegård

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't"
Blaise Pascal


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie
fra Thorvaldsens Museum

Betina Huber: Studier

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
Mark Twain


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af buste

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods"
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af 2 buster

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it"
Michelangelo

Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af en lille kande

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill"
Buddha


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af buster

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"
Marcus Aurelius


Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af en buste

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" Confucius



Betina Huber 09 © / Studie af en konkylie

"See and keep silent"
Francis Walsingham



Betina Huber 09 ©
Studie af en mælkekande

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" Anais Nin



Betina Huber 09 ©
Studie af Svend Wiig Hansen 1922-97
"Siddende kvinde" 1964
Statens Museum for Kunst

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
E. M. Forster



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Studie af Kai Nielsen 1882-1924
"Århuspigen" 1921
Statens Museum for Kunst

"What you see is what you see"
Frank Stella



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Studie af Vilhelm Lundstrøm 1893-1950
"Manden der ser alt" 1919
Statens Museum for Kunst

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe"
Saint Augustine



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Studie af Henri Laurens 1885-1954
"The negress" 1934
Statens Museum for Kunst

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right"
John Donne



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Studie af Wilhelm Freddie 1909-95
Statens Museum for Kunst

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"

Voltaire

"Faith is spiritualized imagination"

Henry Ward Beecher

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother"
Kahlil Gibran



"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith"
Henry Ward Beecher

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams"

Les Brown

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food"

Dorothy Gilman

"Dreaming men are haunted men"
Stephen Vincent Benet



"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways"
Stephen Vincent Benet