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Quote for Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature Awareness Hike, 1/26/2007
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature Awareness Hike, 1/26/2007
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives." -Native American Proverb
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another." -Adlai Stevenson
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." -Aldo Leopold
"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 your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. … Read more »
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense: only more defenders" -Edward Abbey
"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
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses." -Abraham Lincoln
"There is more to be learned in one day of discomfort, poverty, and anxiety than in a lifetime of apparent happiness, security, riches, and power." -Ralph Stanton