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“If we hope to preserve our way of life, the first thing we must do is rediscover our respect for the land, the water, and the entire natural world. And if we do manage to regain that respect, then we must make sure that human beings never lose it again.”
Lois Hole
Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, Alberta
Season’s Greetings! Wishing you the joy of family, the warmth of friends and the gifts of laughter, peace, and love.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Venice, Italy
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vancouver, British Columbia
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s Garden, Giverny
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
Lower Seymour Conservation Area, North Vancouver, British Columbia
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
Jim Bishop
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall
Wallaback Lake, Nova Scotia (River view), Photo Credit Michelle Hunter