“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Fisherman’s Monument” by William Edward deGarthe
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
A Winter’s Day
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)
Tindaro Screpolato by Igor Mitoraj
Boboli Gardens, Florence Italy
“If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?”’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Flower Shop – Paris, France
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;”
Sea Fever, John Masefield
Vancouver Seawall
Vancouver, B.C.
“I believe you should try to help your community if you’re fortunate enough to have that opportunity. I think you should leave something behind.”
John E. Poole (1917-2007)
John E. Poole Wetland, Alberta
The John E. Poole Wetland is the first project of the John E. Poole Conservation Fund, established by Ducks Unlimited Canada as a tribute to John’s passion for the environment and his community.
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
Isaac Asimov
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
Zhuangzi