San Juan Island Update: News about the things that make living here great. » Quotes http://sanjuanupdate.com News about the things that make living in Friday Harbor and on San Juan Island great. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:45:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. MLK http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/05/hate-cannot-drive-out-hate-only-love-can-do-that-mlk/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/05/hate-cannot-drive-out-hate-only-love-can-do-that-mlk/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 21:54:00 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=17096 Continue Reading]]> I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. MLK was first posted on May 2, 2011 at 2:54 pm.
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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/05/hate-cannot-drive-out-hate-only-love-can-do-that-mlk/feed/ 8 A time for joy… http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/01/a-time-for-joy/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/01/a-time-for-joy/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:04:36 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=15266 Continue Reading]]> Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A time for joy… was first posted on January 22, 2011 at 12:04 pm.
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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2011/01/a-time-for-joy/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-138/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-138/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:04:39 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=5024 Continue Reading]]> The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Wendell Berry

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-138/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-137/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-137/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:32:56 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=5018 Continue Reading]]> I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-137/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-136/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-136/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:14:31 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=5015 Continue Reading]]> To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. Douglas P. Wheeler

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-136/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-135/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-135/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:13:07 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4967 Continue Reading]]> When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin

Quote was first posted on August 27, 2009 at 9:13 am.
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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-135/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-133/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-133/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:39:24 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4848 Continue Reading]]> I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Quote was first posted on August 26, 2009 at 12:39 am.
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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-133/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-132/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-132/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:37:47 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4846 Continue Reading]]> A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

Quote was first posted on August 25, 2009 at 12:37 am.
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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-132/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-131/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-131/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:36:53 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4844 Continue Reading]]> We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Father Thomas Berry

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-131/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-134/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-134/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:33:04 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4852 Continue Reading]]> Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-134/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-129/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-129/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:34:09 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4838 Continue Reading]]> The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Cicero

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]]> http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-129/feed/ 0 Quote http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-130/ http://sanjuanupdate.com/2009/08/quote-130/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:35:25 +0000 Ian Byington http://sanjuanupdate.com/?p=4841 Continue Reading]]> I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
George Washington Carver

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Quote was first posted on August 19, 2009 at 6:32 am.
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Thomas Fuller

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