IDEAS & IMAGES: THE BEAUTY OF SHADOWS NOW

Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself.

--- Parker Palmer

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

--- Carl Sandburg

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

--- Ursula K. Le Guin

If you don’t have any shadows you're not in the light.

--- Lady Gaga

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

--- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

--- Shannon L. Alder

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

--- Anaïs Nin

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

--- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

--- Jane Austen

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

--- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Read more about Beautiful Shadows in New Books & Music That Illuminate the Beauty of Shadows Now, The Art & Science of Earth’s Shadows Now, Drink in Beautiful Shadows: Lemonade in the Shade, The Experimental Art of Shadows Now and Best Places to See Magnificent Shadows Now.

And check out more beautiful things happening now in BN Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact Daily Fix posts.

Want more stories like this? Sign up for our weekly BN Newsletter, Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr. Join our BeautifulNow Community and connect with the most beautiful things happening in the world right now!

Do you have amazing photos? Enter them in this week’s BN Photo Competition. We run new creative competitions every week! Now, it’s even easier to enter with the new BeautifulNow App!

Plus check out the rest of our App’s beautiful features. It’s free to download here.

IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Georgie Pauwels. Look into the Wide.
2. Image: by mojitopt. Milonga.
3. Image: by Schjelderup. Because You Never Know.
4. Image: by Focka. Lady Gaga @ Estádio do Morumbi.
5. Image: by Steve Jurvetson. Impromptu.
6. Image: by Isabel. The Road Before the Curve.
7. Image: by Miss Nixie. Shadow Beach.
8. Image: by Theophilos Papadopoulos. Untitled.
9. Image: by Riccardo Cuppini. Poetry.
10. Image: by Sarah Ross. Winter Beach Shadows.
11. Image: by Andre Vandal. Waiting for the 125 Bus.
12. Image: by Daniel Manners. Cape Town Winter Sunrise.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Rui Miguel Matos. Amazing Shadows.