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Quote for Friday, September 29, 2006
"Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."-Walt Whitman
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Quote for Wednesday, September 27, 2006
"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks."-Gregory Bateson
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Quote for Tuesday, September 26, 2006
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and to follow it to an end requires courage." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote for Friday, September 22, 2006
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her serenity."-E.B. White
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Quote for September 20, 2006
"The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space."-Edward Abbey
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Quote for September 19, 2006
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls… Read more »
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Quote for Friday, Sept. 15th
“This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; The being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion… Read more »
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Quote for Weds., Sept. 13th
"When you know what you care about, what you love, what you have passion about, you have discovered the deep truths about who you are and can fashion these gifts into something original."-George Land and Beth Jarman
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Quote for Tuesday, Sept. 12th
"…after walking for days, coming home bugbitten, shins bruised, nose peeling, feet and hands swollen, I feel ablaze with life. I suspect that the canyons give me an intensified sense of living partly because I not only face the basics of living and survival, but carry them on my back. And in my head. And… Read more »
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Quote for Friday, Sept. 8
"Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy consequences. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises and hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had… Read more »
