“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
Friday Reflection
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
André Gide
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
Friday Reflection
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday Reflection
“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
Humphry Davy
Friday Reflection
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
Friday Reflection
“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
Hermann Broch
Friday Reflection
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
André Gide