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July 2006 Quote of the month:
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put
in tune once more." - John Burroughs
August 2006 Quote of the month:
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
Rachel Carson
September 2006 Quote of the month:
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them"
Albert Einstein
October 2006 Quote of the month:
When
one tugs at a single thing in nature, (s)he finds it attached to the
rest of the world.”
John Muir
November 2006 Quote of
the month:
"Rather
than curse the darkness, it is better to light a candle."
(anonymous)
December 2006 Quote of
the month:
“The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved
everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to
have achieved nothing.” (Author
unknown)
January Quote of
the month:
"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein
February 2007 Quote of
the month:
From the file of -
Just because they are famous doesn’t mean they are right….
“It is
easier to believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones
would fall from heaven.” Thomas Jefferson
March 2007 Quote of the Month:
"Just
as science has been our candle in the dark illuminating our path into
the heart of human nature, science is our greatest hope for the future,
showing us how best we can utilize our natures to ensure our survival.”
Michael Shermer
April
2007
Quote of the month:
“Wisdom
begins in wonder.
"
Socrates
May 2007 Quote of the Month:
Beauty is before me,
And beauty behind me.
Above and below me hovers the beautiful,
I am surrounded by it,
I am immersed in it.
In my youth, I am aware of it,
In my old age
I shall walk quietly
The beautiful trail.
From a Navajo Benedictory Chant
describing the desert
June 2007 Quote of the
month:
“Every
now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a
mountain, a star, the run of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and
patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone
in the world.
Sidney
Lovett
July 2007 Quote of the month:
"Watching nature is a
feast for the heart while understanding nature is a feast for the mind. "
Jerry Dennis
August 2007 Quote of the month:
"Most
look up and admire the stars;
a champion climbs a mountain
and grabs one."
J. Jackson Brown Jr.
September 2007 Quote of the month:
“Twenty years from
now, you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in our sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
October 2007 Quote of the month:
"All
you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."
Gandolf-Lord of the Rings
November 2007 Quote of the month:
"They
laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian.
They're not laughing now."
Bob Monkhouse
December
2007 Quote of the month:
"The human spirit needs places
where nature has not been
rearranged by the hand of man."
Unknown
January 2008 Quote of the month:
"A
Rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates
it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
February 2008 Quote of the month:
Rather than curse the darkness, it is better to light a candle.
Anonymous
March 2008 Quote of the month:
"To make a
prairie it takes one clover and a bee and reverie."
Emily Dickinson
April 2008 Quote of the month:
"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
Daniel Boone
May 2008 Quote of the month:
"In
those parts of the world where learning
and science have prevailed,
miracles have ceased;
but in those parts of it as
are barbarous and ignorant,
miracles are still in vogue."
-Ethan Allen, revolutionary
(1738-1789)
June 2008 Quote of the month:
"If the sight of the blue skies
fills you with joy,
If a blade of grass
springing up in the fields
has power to move you,
If the simple things
of nature have a message
you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive."
Eleonora Duse
July 2008 Quote of the month:
"It’s
kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney
August 2008 Quote of the month:
"One
does not advance
the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water."
Multatuli
(pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker)
September 2008 Quote of the month:
"You can chase a
butterfly
all over the field and never
catch it. But if you sit quietly
in the grass it will come and
sit on your shoulder." Anonymous
October 2008 Quote of the month:
"My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good partner, you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates
November 2008 Quote of the month:
"The
worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle
December 2008 Quote of the month:
You never know
when someone might catch a dream from you.
You never know when a little word or something that you might do,
May open up a window of a mind that seeks the lights.
The way you teach may not matter at all, but you never know, it might.
CanTeach website
January 2009 Quote of the month:
"The beauty of our natural world is all
around us if we just take time to observe and appreciate it."
Jan Sebach
February
2009 Quote of the month:
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only
the wisdom that is in it -
- and stop there -
- lest we be like the cat that sits down
on a hot stove-lid.
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well;
but also she will never sit down
on a cold one any more."
Mark Twain
CanTeach website
March
2009 Quote of the month:
Give
me a place to stand,
and I shall move the world.
-Archimedes
April
2009 Quote of the month:
"Human nature is just
about the only nature
some people experience."
Abigail Charleson
May
2009 Quote of the month:
"There is a
pleasure in
the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on
the lonely shore ."
Lord Byron
June
2009 Quote of the month:
"Do what you can
with what you have
where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
July
2009 Quote of the month:
"The
best and most beautiful things in
the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
--Helen Keller
August
2009 Quote of the month:
"We
live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in
which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
September
2009
Quote of the month:
"The
object is to teach
the student to see the land,
to understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands."
--Aldo Leopold
October
2009 Quote of the month:
"Going to the woods
is going home"
--John
Muir
November 2009
Quote of the month:
"We
live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in
which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
-Carl Sagan
December 2009 Quote of the month:
"Don't
judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
January 2010
Quote of the month:
"You don’t choose your
family. They are God’s gift to you,
as you are to them."
Desmond Tutu
February 2010
Quote of the month:
"Be
kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Plato
March 2010
Quote of the month:
In memory of BB
"Your friend is your
needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap
with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you
come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace."
Kahlil Gibran
April 2010
Quote of the month:
"Do
what you love,
love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
Harvey McKay
May 2010
Quote of the month:
"I have
dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my
dreams."
-Jonas Salk
June 2010
Quote of the month:
“One can complain because rosebushes have thorns,
or rejoice because
thorn bushes have roses.”
-Abraham Lincoln
July 2010
Quote of the month:
"And this, our life,
exempt from public haunt,
finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks,
sermons in stones,
and good in everything."
--William Shakespeare
August 2010
Quote of the month:
“What helps you get through difficult times in Life? Positive
thinking. Believing that it’s going to be O.K. And so far it has been.
Why (complain) about anything? You’re not hungry. You’re not cold.
Neither am I. We’re not sick. So everything is fine. If you continue to
lie in the now, then things will be O.K.
- Willie Nelson
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