Canon 5d, 1/250s, f4, iso100, Canon 70-200L f4 @ 165.

Canon 350d, 1/100s, f4.5, iso100, Canon 70-200L f4 @ 176.

Second shot, is Sa'dieh, where Sa'di, the great Persian poet is buried in Shiraz city, Shiraz province, Iran.

Sheykh Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah, known as Sa'di (1184 – 1283/1291), is one of the greatest poets of Iran and the world. His major works are Bustan ("The Orchard") completed in 1257 and Gulistan ("The Rose Garden") in 1258 and his collection of Ghazals. To read more about him, refer to Wikipedia.

Alexander Pushkin, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of all time and a world renown literacy figure, quotes Saadi in his masterpiece Eugene Onegin:

as Saadi sang in earlier ages,
"some are far distant, some are dead".

A part of one of Sa'di's poems is used to grace the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New York with this call for breaking all barriers:

"بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند

چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار
دگر عضوها را نماند قرار

تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی
نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.

If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.

If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain".