“The beauty of the past belongs to the past.”– Margaret Bourke-White Related Quotes “I was convinced that birds were kinds of souls. Not the souls of people but of previous birds whose mystery and beauty were so necessary on earth that God would not allow them to be anything in their second life but birds again.”— Howard Norman “To make life beautiful–every time you think–think about the amazing beauty of life.”— Debasish Mridha M.D. “Sometimes I think I might not have written ‘The Age of Miracles’ if I hadn’t grown up in California, if I hadn’t been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”– Karen Thompson Walker