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Trees and Flowing Water #4
Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. -Elizabeth Goude The Dean’s Watch
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Trees and Flowing Water #5
New places offer more than geographical change. They also offer a mental distance from the recent past that allows you to get your life in perpective. -Sarah Harrell Banks To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried. -George Santayana
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Trees and Flowing Water #6
The need is not for humanity to learn to manage for the planet, which can manage quite well without us. The need is for humanity to learn to manage itself. -Robert C. Cowen What are the environmental problems in your area? What’s being done about them? How are local people encouraged or required to minimize…
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Trees and Flowing Water #7
It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural and uncultivated state, was… to be the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE. -Thomas Paine Agrarian Justice
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Trees and Flowing Water #8
Mountains are the scribblings of time on the surface of the land…. Here man does not matter, does not count…The steam, the trout, the mountains, go on with or without me, dancing, as they have for so long, to time’s madder music-rhythms older than interstellar dust. -Harry Middleton On the Spine of Time: An Angler’s…
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“We are each of us unique.” #1
Each of us is a biography, a story… Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives, we are each of us unique. -Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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“We are each of us unique.” #2
To have one’s individual completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light. -Evelyn Scott Has anyone ever caused you to feel as if you weren’t even there, as if your needs or wishes or plans didn’t even exist? How can each of us…
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“We are each of us unique.” #3
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned: freedom, from intrusion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. -Phyllis McGinley Each of us needs a different amount of this freedom. This difference often causes misunderstandings between friends, spouses, parents and children, and even teachers…
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“We are each of us unique.” #4
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities. -Henry Wadsowrth Longfellow
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“We are each of us unique.” #5
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Tillich The Eternal Now …Nothing, nothing, nothing, is worthwhile when we have to do it all…