“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
Friday Reflection
Friday Reflection
“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
Friday Reflection
“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
Friday Reflection
“We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Peggy’s Cove Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock, The Use of Life
Nova Scotia
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”
George Gordon Byron
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia
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.”
Sir Humphry Davy (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) English chemist and inventor.
Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
Nova Scotia
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