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Ageless Beauty(A photographic documentation of nature’s beauty

with the assistance of musical quotes)

Sonny Snyder

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“Slide into the water. Become one with the sea. Life seems so much smaller. Swim to the moon.”- Between the Buried and Me

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“When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know, I’m a rainbow, too.”-Bob Marley

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“I used to have a rope ladder but tattered were the rungs, I strung it from the highest willow, trying to hug the sun.”- Aesop Rock

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“Don't try to predict it, then you'd offend it. It's meant to surpriseNature is ancientBut surprises us all”-Bjork

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“Four days alone with nothing, emerge empowered”-Pearl Jam

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“One breath away from mother Oceania, your nimble feet make prints in my hands.”-Bjork

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“Intake ambiance a tool for meditation, progressing towards the clouds with at whom I am complete”-Alias

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18“Well the night was beautiful and mellow, and the light of the night fell on me.” -Paul McCartney

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20“I’m floating down a river, oars freed from their hooks long ago. I marvel at the stars and feel my heart overflows.”-Incubus

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“I have lost my origin, and I don’t want to find it again, rather sailing into nature’s laws, and be held by ocean’s paws”-Bjork

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“Trees so strong that they can never fall, wild river flows with rage alive.”- Gojira

28“Watch the sun as it crawls across a final time, and it feels like, like it was a friend”- Nine Inch Nails

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30“Living respectful, low your axe and learn from the trees.”-Gojira

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33(In nature, mysterious creatures may chase you out of their homes, which is understandable.)

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“I live by the ocean, and during the night, I dive into it, down to the bottom, underneath all currents, and drop my anchor, this is where I’m staying, this is my home”-Bjork

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“Sit beside a mountain stream--see her waters rise, Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies. Find me in my field of grass--Mother Nature's son, Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun.”- The Beatles

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“A deep voice is rising, from the heart of the mountain, vibrations of the stone, I can hear in my heart.”-Gojira

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“Let’s go down the waterfall, think about good times and never look back”-Radiohead

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“All of the rivers are boiling with thirst, all my hands are covered with earth”-Baroness

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(It has always been “us”.)

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“You are love, you are soul, you are real to me”-Billy Corgan

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“I feel I am part of this, and this a part of me”- Gojira

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Photographs (All photos taken by the author except where noted)

1. Weisendanger Falls, Oregon (2005)2. Oregon Coast, Oregon (1999)3. Mt. Hood Meadows, Oregon (2003)4. Mt. Hood Meadows, Oregon (2003)5. Angel’s Rest Hike, Oregon (2007)6. Lower Wahkeena Falls, Oregon (2008)7. Sw Portland, Oregon (2006)8. Warren Lake, Oregon (2006)9. Multnomah Falls, Oregon (2006)10. Lava Canyon, Washington (2006)11. Dog Mountain, Washington (2007)12. Lewis River, Washington (2006)13. Lava Canyon, Washington (2006)14. Manzanita, Oregon (2005)15. Fort Stevens, Oregon (2006)16. Elmer Feldenheimer State Park, Oregon (2005)17. Pacific City, Oregon (2006)18. Sw Portland, Oregon (2006)19. Manzanita, Oregon (2006)

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(Cont.)20. Cascade Locks, Oregon (2006)21. Gearhart, Oregon (2008)22. Dog Mountain, Washington (2005)23. Gearhart, Oregon (2008)24. Crater Lake, Oregon (2010)25. Silver Falls, Oregon (2011)(Co-shot with Lindsay M.)26. Oregon Gorge, Oregon (2008)27. Cascade Locks, Oregon (2006)28. Albany, Oregon (2005)29. Opal Creek, Oregon (2007)30. Opal Creek, Oregon (2007)31. Wind Mountain, Oregon (2007)32. Natural Bridges, Mt. Adams, Washington (2006)33. Random Cave, Mt. Adams Area, Washington (2006)34. Random Cornfield, Kansas (2008)35. Oregon Coast, Oregon (2008)36. Table Rock, Medford, Oregon (2010)37. Mt. Adams, from Trout Lake, Washington (2007)38. Some mountain in Hawaii (2010)(Photo by Charity F.)39. Lake Oswego, Oregon (2009)

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(Cont.)40. Silver Falls, Oregon (2008)41. Fort Stevens Beach, Oregon (2007)42. Northern California Border (2010)43. Horsetail Falls Trail, Oregon (2011)44. Table Rock, Medford, Oregon (2010)45. Crater Lake, Oregon (2010)46. Oregon Gorge, Oregon (2009)47. Wind Mountain, Washington (2007)48. Silver Falls, Oregon (2011)(Photo by Lindsay M.)49 Random Mountain in Hawaii (2010)(Photo by Charity F.)50. Johnson Shut-ins, Missouri (~1989)(Photo by my Mother)51. Weisendanger Falls, Oregon (1999)(Photo by my Mother)