Frank Hendriks Photography:
So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
My soul left me when I was six. It left me alone in the choking dark. It took my tongue, my heart, and my mind.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
The destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to the point of becoming one with it and, ultimately, to vanish.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
This was different. It had drumbeats bursting like fireworks, and then a crazy, irregular, disharmonious, spiral crescendo of pure electric noise, like a typhoon dragging our bodies into it.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
Only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men.
Frank Hendriks Photography:
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.