RON HENGGELER

The view from my window, of sunrise and the dome of San Francisco's City Hall.

March 15, 2016

Sunrise and the view of San Francisco's skyline from my window.

March 15, 2016

Janis and Jazz in a warm spot of early morning sunlight.

Janis and Jazz in a warm spot of early morning sunlight.

The dome of San Francisco City Hall as viewed from the top of Fulton Street near Stanyan.

The Golden Gate Bridge and the distant San Francisco seen from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands just outside the Gate.

The one-way Conzelman Road in the Marin Headlands on the way to Battery Mendell, the historic Point Bonita Lighthouse, Rodeo Lagoon, and Rodeo Beach.

The setting sun as seen on Rodeo Beach.

The profile of Bird Rock as seen after sunset, from Rodeo Beach

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands

Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands

Raindrops from the morning storm and the view of San Francisco's skyline from my window.

March 20, 2016

A morning storm and the view of San Francisco's City Hall from my window.

March 20, 2016

Friends from Norway, Per and Henrik

March 20, 2016

On Sunday March 20th, during a pounding rain storm, Dave and I took our visiting friends Per and Henrik from Norway to see the majestic redwood trees at Muir Woods. They are both trained biologists, so the visit for them was especially fun, despite the downpouring rain. As we walked through Catherdal Grove, they held my umbrella while I photographed the spectacularly lush neon green forest.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo

A note to Jane Goodall:

Dear Jane,

I wish you could have been with us on Sunday. I thought of you often.

You would have felt that you'd been transported to some heavenly place.

Never in my life have I seen vivid living greens such as these!

Love. Ron

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

 

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice Walker

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Empedocles

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings

 

 

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

 

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

 

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Henrik and Per

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci

 

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Langston Hughes

A photo between the pass of windshield wipers, of the rain and the road leading out of Muir Woods.

Raindrops on the windshield and a view at Fort Point

The Golden Gate Bridge in a heavy rainfall, seen from Fort Point

 

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

A view from Greary Blvd of the distant dome of the Russian Orthodox Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco, as seen during a rainstorm.

 

A view of Ocean Beach during a winter storm, near the Great Highway at Taravel

 

Snowy Plovers on Ocean beach during a rainstorm

The view from my window on Monday March 21st of the largest brightest rainbow I have ever seen.

Curiously, the north end of the rainbow was directly on top of the place where I work on Nob Hill.

Buffalo in Golden Gate Park

Light of the setting sun on the dome of the Russian Orthodox Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco

Light of the setting sun on the dome of the Russian Orthodox Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco

Sunset seen from the parking lot of the Sutro Baths near the Cliff House and Ocean Beach