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Densey Clyne
Densey Clyne
"A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality."
Densey Clyne
Beauty
Nature
Believe
"The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!"
Densey Clyne
Beauty
Flower
Butterfly
"Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter."
Densey Clyne
Autumn
Winter
Garden
"Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights."
Densey Clyne
Responsibility
Animal
Rights
"Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them."
Densey Clyne
Wisdom
Fall
Blessing
"I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it."
Densey Clyne
Pain
Motivation
Believe
"Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches."
Densey Clyne
Wisdom
Cliche
Insight
"There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease."
Densey Clyne
Wisdom
Disease
Causes
"I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean."
Densey Clyne
Nature
Believe
Ocean
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