SKYLINE SUNSET DAWN REFLECTION WATERS PANORAMA by Unknown (Max Pixel)

BEAUTIFUL TORONTO

a curated love story in photos and quotes

The following are images and quotations I’ve gathered over a recent foray into the googlesphere in search of memories, moments and mementos of the place I call home: TORONTO, Canada.

TORONTO SKYLINE AT DAWN by Geo Swan (Wikimedia Commons)

“Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself…”

Pier Giorgio Di Cico (Poet Laureate of Toronto)

TORONTO SKYLINE FROM CENTRE ISLAND by Nigel (Flickr)

“I love Toronto’s long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!”

Guy Maddin (Filmmaker)

SUNSET AT ASHBRIDGE’S BAY IN TORONTO by John Vetterli (Wikimedia Commons)

“Toronto is the city of the future-and always will be.”

Allan A. Lamport

SUNSET TORONTO by Paul Bica (Wikimedia Commons)

“The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.”

Anthony Bourdain

TORONTO TTC 505 STREETCAR AT DUNDAS AND YONGE by Tim Adams (Wikimedia Commons)

“It’s easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.”

Yo Yo Ma

3D TORONTO by Daveynin (Flickr)