Wellness

SOFT GREY INSPIRATION

by Marco Cortese. “Neuschwanstein Castle.”

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

-- Duke Ellington

Macro image of snowflake.

“The color of truth is gray. “

-- Andre Gide

Beautiful grey pelican with other birds on rocks.

“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”

-- Ridley Scott

Water ripples.

“Everything in life is gray, you know.”

-- Jeannette Walls

Grey cat with green eyes and bell on collar.

“Better gray than garishness.”

-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Grey dragonfly perches on end of fishing rod.

“Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.”

-- Van Wyck Brooks

Grey day at the London Eye ferris wheel.

“Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.“

-- Gerhard Richter

Tree barely seen through mist.

“The fundamental gray which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.”

-- Odilon Redon

Gnarled grey tree roots.

“I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”

-- Alber Elbaz

Grey cloudy sky over pointed island hills.

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

-- Jean Paul

Black and white photo of girl running through fountains in the rain.

“No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey”

-- Sweety Shinde, Arjun: “Without a Doubt.”

Black and white photo of snow covered Alps.

Read more about Soft Beauty all this week on BeautifulNow, including Soft Places to Land, Soft Furry Feathered Beauties and The Beauty of Soft Dawns. And check out more beautiful things happening now in BN Wellness, Impact, Nature/Science, Food, Arts/Design, and Travel, Daily Fix posts.

Great horned owl close up in black and white.

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Tree and grey sky reflections in creek.

IMAGE CREDITS:

Image: by Marco Cortese. “Neuschwanstein Castle.”
Image: by Alexey Kljatov. “Snowflake.”
Image: by Eric Neitzel. “Pelican.”
Image: by Dave. “Water Abstract.”
Image: by Danilo Urbina. “Ema, la Gata Azul.”
Image: by Vicki DeLoach. “Gone Fishin' I.”
Image: by Angelo Domini. “London Eye.”
Image: by Steve. “Untitled.”
Image: by cobalt123. “Beautiful Inside and Out.”
Image: by Justin Kern. “Grim and Terrible and Utterly Beautiful.”
Image: by Fred Mancosu. “Dancing in the Rain.”
Image: by Ryan Fonkert. “Alpenglow.”
Image: by Vicki DeLoach. “Great Horned Owl in b&w.”
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Image: by P Wenzel. “Creek a Day.”