Robin Swindle Art

“There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.” - Bill Mollison

Let's pause today to notice it!

Keep the spirit alive!

Life's Cheerleader

I added the iTunes U app to my phone recently, and I have been enjoying it immensely. I'm delighted that I can audit entire courses from Harvard, Yale and Stanford for free. Never stop learning.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

"The man who does not read has not advantage over the man who cannot read." - Mark Twain

What have you been reading lately?

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir