THERE’S BEAUTY HAPPENING ON THE EDGES RIGHT NOW
"Wherever you are, venture out onto the nearest edge - the views are breathtaking and the learning is limitless."
― John Hagel
“We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.”
― E. L. Doctorow
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.”
― Brad Dourif
“It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.”
― William Albert Allard
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”
― Herman Melville
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
― William Carlos Williams
Read more about Beautiful Edges, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including 10 New Books on the Beauty of Edges Now, New Edges in Space are Beautiful Now, Beautiful Edges to Eat & Drink Now, Art On Edge Now and Edges of the Sky on Edge Now.
Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Edges in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 03.01.15. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!
IMAGE CREDITS:
- Photo: by Chris Ziekecki. Standing on the Edge of the World.
- Photo: by Andrea. The Edge.
- Photo: Courtesy of btweenblinks. Lady’s Mantle.
- Photo: by Riccardo Cuppini. On the Edge Forever.
- Photo: by castgen. Lonely Man Walking on the Edge - Santa Maria Al Bagno - Lecce - Puglia- Italy.
- Photo: by Jeff Hurn. Teetering on the Edge.
- Photo: by Carlo Scherer. “...close to the edge.”
- Photo: by Ismael Orendain. Pictures from the Edge.
- Photo; by Trey Ratcliff. The Edge of Glacier National Park at Sunrise.
- Photo: by Jeff Smallwood. Dew Drops Do Drop.
- Photo: by Billy Wilson. Ice Formations.
