The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
~ Mark Twain
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April 18, 2011
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April 14, 2011
Simple Statement of the Day
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
~ John Muir
April 13, 2011
Simple Statement of the Day
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
~ John F. Kennedy
April 06, 2011
Simple Statement of the Day
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~ William Blake
March 30, 2011
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
March 25, 2011
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that fountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!
~ John Muir
March 24, 2011
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
~ Edvard Munch
March 23, 2011
Simple Statement of the Day
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
March 17, 2011
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Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
~ Jackie Cochran, Aviation Pioneer (1906-1980)
March 11, 2011
Simple Statement of the Day
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
~ Henry Beston, American Author, also known as "The Vagabond of the Dunes" (1888-1968)
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