Northwestern Garter Snake (Thamnophis ordinoides)

Harmony

“It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.”

– Henri Poincaré, French mathematician

 

Point Lobos, CA (2012)

 

“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations