“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
T.S. Eliot

Halifax Public Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
T.S. Eliot
Halifax Public Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
C.S. Lewis
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Halifax
“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.”
Carol Burnett
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Halifax
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
T.S. Eliot
Clock Tower Halifax, Nova Scotia
“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie
Halifax Library, Halifax Nova Scotia