Wallpaper and Screen Savers

Series 1 | Series 2 | Series 3 | Series 4 | Series 5

All photos by W. or J. Dougherty unless otherwise noted  


Series 5    New!

Series 5 zip files: 1024 x 768 zip | 1280 x 960 zip

Teton Nation Park, WY 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;
     and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes e. e. cummings

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Yellowstone National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

    If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent van Gogh

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Colorado Naional Monument 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960 

     We are caught in an inescapable web of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.
     Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther King

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***** 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960   Two interacting spiral galaxies (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage
                                                                                                (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (U. of Virginia,
                                                                                                Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University))

    Thus the seer, with vision clear, sees forms appear and disappear, in the perpetual round of strange, mysterious change.
    From birth to death, from death to birth; from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth:
    Till glimpses more sublime, of things unseen before, unto his wondering eyes reveal the Universe, as an immeasurable wheel
    Turning forevermore in the rapid and rushing river of Time. – H. W. Longfellow, "Rain in Summer"

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Beartooth Pass, Yellowstone National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. – Francis Bacon

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Mississippi Palisades State Park, IL 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     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

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Reflection Lake, Ranier National Park, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Chuang-tzu

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France 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     My mind is my own Church. – Thomas Paine

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Light Paths 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

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10  Cascades, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. – John Cage


Series 1

Series 1 zip files: 1024 x 768 zip | 1280 x 960 zip

Rocky Mountain National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. – Chuang Tzu 

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wildflower, Minnesota 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of
     different Scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. – Srimad-Bhagvatam

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Arches National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Albert Einstein 

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Winter, Bellevue, WA 1024 x 768  | 1280 x 960

     We rarely hear the inward music, but we're dancing to it nevertheless. – Rumi 

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Orion nebula - Hubble 1024 x 768  | 1280 x 960     Orion Nebula, Spitzer and Hubble telescopes
                                                                [NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo) and M. Robberto (STScI)]

     When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands,
     flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears
     as an infinite storm of beauty. – John Muir

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Dinosaur National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

    Both the myths of religion and the laws of science, it is now becoming apparent, are not so much
   description of facts as symbolic expressions of cosmic truths. – René Dubos  

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Cascade Mountains, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Joy is the realization of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world
     and of the world-soul with the supreme love. – Rabindranath Tagore 

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Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Intrinsically all living beings are buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because their minds
     have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this. – Buddha

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Black Hills, SD 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Religion consists in doing as little harm as possible, in doing good in abundance, in the practice of love,
     of compassion, of truthfulness and purity, in all the walks of life. – Asoka's Edicts

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10  Zion National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     We believe nothing so firmly as what we least know. – Montaigne


Series

Series 2 zip files: 1024 x 768 zip | 1280 x 960 zip

Black Canyon of the Gunnison  1024 x 768  | 1280 x 960

     The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. – Sri Nisargadatta

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Fremont Indian pictographs  1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning. 
     For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth. – Peter Abelard  

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Th. Roosevelt National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. –– Walter Lippman

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Great Sand Dunes National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     No tool is more beneficial than intelligence.  No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.
        –  Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid

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Rocky Mountain National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires. – William James

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Fruita from Colorado National Monument  1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch

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7  Christmas lights 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

      A profound thought is in a constant process of becoming. – Albert Camus

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Interfaith Fair, Bellevue, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity.  What though we have
     many bodies?  We have but one soul.  I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but
     in everyone. – M. K. Gandhi

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Seattle, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     It's more useful to think of every other person as another you – to think of every individual
     as a representative of the universe. – Rolling Thunder

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10  Sun from  1024 x 768   | 1280 x 960   [LASCO C2 image of solar coronal mass ejection
                                                         January 8, 2002, taken by SOHO (ESA & NASA)]

     You are a second world in miniature, the sun and the moon are within you, and also the stars. – Origen 


Series 3   

Series 3 zip files: 1024 x 768 zip | 1280 x 960 zip

Bellevue, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
     It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot

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Cascades, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

    The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong.  To be alienated
    from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. – Thomas Berry

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Dinosaur National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn."  The morning stars still sing together,
     and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day. – John Muir

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Rocky Mountain National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Whatever happens, in any form or at any time or place, is but a variation
     of the One Self-existent Reality. – Yoga-Vasistha

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Camden State Park, MN 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. – St. Theresa of Lisieux

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Painted Desert, AZ 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Truth is the spiritual white light which falls upon the prism of mankind and
     breaks into many colors whereby individuals interpret it. – Paul Brunton

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Bighorn Mountains, WY 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."  Why?  Because every human being has a root in the Unity,
     and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all. – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov

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Small Magellanic Cloud 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960 [Newly formed stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud;
                                                      NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
                                                      - ESA/Hubble Collaboration]

     This day before dawn I ascended a hill, and look'd at the crowded heaven,
     And I said to my Spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure
         and knowledge of everything in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?

     And my Spirit said, No, we but level that lift, to pass and continue beyond. – Walt Whitman

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Dinosaur National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Regardless of whether we realize it or not, we are always in the midst of the Way.  
     Or, more strictly speaking, we are nothing but the Way itself. – Taizan Maezumi

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10  Arches National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own.  For
     they belong also to our friends, to mankind, to the universe, and to the Ground of all being,
     the aim of our life. – Paul Tillich


Series 4

Series 4 zip files: 1024 x 768 zip | 1280 x 960 zip

North shore, Lake Superior, MN 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     All are one. – Black Elk

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Near Monument Valley 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

    There is one Mind.  It is absolutely omnipresent, giving mentality to all things. – Giordano Bruno

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Cone nebula 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960  (Cone Nebula; NASA H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth
                                                                                                (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI) G. Hartig (STScI),
                                                                                                the ACS Science Team, and ESA)

     Thus verily are we born of the moon, children of the sun, offspring of the stars, and inheritors of the cosmic spaces;
     for space itself is we and we are it, for we and the Boundless are in essence not twain but one. – G. de Purucker

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Rocky Mountain National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

    When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. – John Muir

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Colorado River, UT 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world,
     in like manner also within and inside myself. – Johannes Kepler

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Seattle, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     You are not alone.  We are all connected.  You could no more separate yourself from humanity than a wave
      could separate itself from the ocean and still be a wave. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Cascades, WA 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
     I will not refuse to do the something I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

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Great Sand Dunes National Park 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind;
     a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. – Spinoza

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Bighorn Mountains, WY 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     In truth it is utterly impossible for any fragment of humanity to be secure and in peace and untroubled
     while any other fragment is in peril or oppressed, because inwardly and in reality we are one. – Katherine Tingley

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10  Southern Wisconsin 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960

     As long as the sky exists and as long as there are sentient beings
     May I remain to help relieve them of all their pain. – Shantideva


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