“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Friday Reflection
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Friday Reflection
“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.”
Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
Friday Reflection
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Cucamelons (Photo Credit Dr. Carolan McLarney)
Friday Reflection
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Halifax
Friday Reflection
“Nothing endures but change.”
Heraclitus
Friday Reflection
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Matsuo Basho
A Resting Place, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maya Angelou
Quebec City
Friday Reflection
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
Lord Byron
Nova Scotia