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Quote for Monday, April 30, 2007
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan
This week we chose our action project and began to contact members of the community who can provide us with guidance and support in our pursuit of a successful 4 Days in May. We’ve decided that Fire Mitigation would be an interesting topic to learn about and participate in. We’ve also decided that building a… Read more »
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." -Wallace Stegner
"Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paolo Freire
The sweetness of success. Jacob tries out the pine-needle bed! An admirable debris shelter.
Before and after our fire mitigation project…A healthy forest!
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." -John James Audubon
"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is the first bond with the wilderness you are going into. … Read more »