Quote for Today: John Wesley Powell
I am not sure that we can climb out of the canyon here, and, when at the top of the wall, I know enough of the country to be certain that it is …
Quote for Today: Isobelle Carmody
You have to be careful of the cracks. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through …
Quote for Today: Robert Green Ingersoll
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depths; …
Quote for Today: Sir Edmund Hillary
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the …
Quote for Today: Charles Darwin
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The …
Quote for Today: Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet …
Quote for Today: Richard Louv
Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take …
Of Mud and Poetry Contests: What Kind of Creative are You?
Flowers don’t often grow in clay and piles of mud seldom win sculpture contests. Are you using your creativity effectively? Mud is a substance with a myriad of uses, from …
Quote for Today: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I’ll stay down here and get the data. But nobody’s ever given a parade …