WILD CHILL
“A cat pours his body on the floor like water.”
-William Lyon Phelps
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
- Dean Koontz
“The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it... No place for greed or anger there.”
- Pha Pachak
“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”
- Milan Kundera
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
- Colette
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
- Jean Cocteau
“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
- Samuel Butler
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
- Lao Tzu
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
- William Hazlitt
“Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up.”
- D.H. Lawrence
Read more about Beautiful Chill, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Welcome to a Week of Beautifully Chill.
Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Chill in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 07.27.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!
PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by David DeHetre. “Lion Snoozing.”
- Photo: by Guido. “Snooze.”
- Photo: by jasonhill. “Let Sleeping Foxes Lie.”
- Photo: by Andy Chase. “Fasted Breed in the World.”
- Photo: by Property#1. “Relaxed.”
- Photo: by zyggy32. “Jaguar.”
- Photo: by Nazhiyath Vijayan. “Sea Lion Snoozing.”
- Photo: by Michelle Ramos. “North Shore Sea Turtles.”
- Photo: by Rene Mensen. “Relax!”
- Photo: by george.bremer. “Even Rabbits Like to Sunbathe”.
