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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
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