
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!' ~~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."— Susan Sontag