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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

 

Phacops rana, Erie County, NY, Devonian Trilobite
Harpidella christi, Shelby County IN, Silurian trilobite
Dasciocrinus sp., Alabama, Mississippian crinoid

2002- 2008©Marc Behrendt


 

 

 

 

 

 


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