Quote for Friday, April 27, 2007
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
"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.
"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 »
You head up to the mountains after work with your pooch to explore a new trail and to relieve some post-work stress. After a mile or two, you let Sparky off the leash, like you always do, and then…Sparky bolts after a rabbit and you find yourself frantically chasing after him. After hustling to keep… Read more »
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person that has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -Cesar Chavez