Quote for the Day!

“"I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me"
William Blake”

“"Nature shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)”

“"According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but `organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum'. I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, tying her shoelaces."

--Edward Abbey”

“"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

-Douglas Adams”

“"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

-Barry Switzer”

“Five”

“posts”

“left”

“until”

“POST 1000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohooo”

“I mean post 960. Ooops, guess i should read more carefully.”

“ok! and you were in the air force, huh?”

“LOL Rad.

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

-George Santayana”

“"A book [or thread] of quotations . . . can never be complete."

-Robert M. Hamilton”

“"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."

-Dan Rather”

“"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)”

“"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

"Damn your Volcan logic!!!"

-'Bones'”

“"Will you pretend to be my daddy?"
-Tanisha, a kindergartener in one of the classrooms I'm doing a practicum in. Just about broke my heart when she said that to me, she's such a sweet little girl.”

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
Mark Twain”

“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. . . . No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the
memory.
Plato”

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein”

“Your learning is useless to you till you have lost your text-books, burnt your lecture notes, and forgotten the minutiae which you
learnt by heart for the examination.
Alfred North Whitehead”

“Of course, Behaviorism "works." So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple
electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden”

“I hate quotations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
-- Rachel Carson”

“"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their
meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
Martin Luther King, Jr.”

“" Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts
of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of
wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive."
-- Gary Snyder”

“" We have the power to change our world. It is not an issue of whether or not can we make a difference. The truth is that we do make a difference.
Everything we do, say, and think shapes our reality. It is time that we join our bodies, minds, hearts, spirits, and voices and call for peace on the
Earth and peace with the Earth. Please get involved in whatever ways you can, but please, do it now. The legacy of all life depends on it."
-- Julia Butterfly”

“"Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our
duty? To live a life."

Rick Bass "The Lost Grizzlies"”

“"... only the enthusiasm of people can make it work: an enlightened and involved public stands as the hope between the remaining parcels of
wilderness and oblivion"

-- Michael Frome, Battle for the Wilderness, 1974”

“"If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are."
-- Wendell Berry”

“"The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the
generations which will come after us and audit our accounts."

-- William T. Hornaday”

“"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
-- John Muir”

“"The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom."
-- Gary Snyder”

“"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world -- the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness."
-- John Muir”

“"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home..."
--Gary Snyder”

“"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect."
-- Aldo Leopold”

“"This we know. The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one
family... Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

-- Chief Sealth (Seattle)”

“" When we?re on the land, in communion, in community, we remember that nothing exists in isolation."
--Tempest Williams”

“"There is just one hope for repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche of the whole earth. That hope is the organization
of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness."
--Bob Marshall”

“"A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle
of civilization itself."
--Edward Abbey”

“"The key to intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts."
-- Aldo Leopold”

“"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

-- Henry David Thoreau”

“"Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend. You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say you cannot have game
and hate predators. The land is one organism."
-- Aldo Leopold”

“"Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?? goes on and on, with never a
guess that first of all it might have been made for itself."
-- John Muir”

“"I don?t climb mountain. Mountain climbs me. Mountain is myself. I climb on myself."
-- Nanao Sakaki”

“"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."

-- Martin Luther King”

“"Holy Sh!t," you say. "Oldie, you're a nut!" you say.

Yes, I'm a nut. Yes, I'm lame. Yes, I should have been asleep quite a while ago, but I'm a nerd, and I'm not asleep.
I did save the best quote for last though.”

“no, not this one.”

“"The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best He ever planted."
-- John Muir”