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“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.”
Martinique Beach, Nova Scotia
“Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.”
Lavinia Spalding
Nova Scotia
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Matsuo Basho
A Resting Place, Nova Scotia
“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
“Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I’m always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”
Neil Gaiman
Halifax Public Library
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
Khalil Gibran
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
“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
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
Dalhousie University, Halifax Campus
“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.”
Dorothy Height, Educator and Social Activist
Nova Scotia
“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”
Joseph Campbell
Dalhousie University, Halifax Campus