“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
Michael Pollan
Friday Reflection
“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
Dante Alighieri
Florence, Italy
Friday Reflection
“My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.”
Robert Burns, (1759 – 1796)
Scottish Highlands
Friday Reflection
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
Robert Swan, Author
Friday Reflection
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
Gertrude Jekyll
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
Friday Reflection
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
Dalhousie University
Friday Reflection
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Émile Zola
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”
Wendell Berry
Martinique Beach, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“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
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Venice, Italy
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