The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. Douglas Adams

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. Woody Allen

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar Bradley, WWII general

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we all belong. Thomas Berry

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent

It is not the writer’s task to answer questions but to question answers. Edward Abbey

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we all belong. Thomas Berry

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.

Peasant people … don’t have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there’s only so much to go around. Sister Dorothy Stang, an eco-activist nun from Dayton, Ohio, who in 2005 was murdered in the  Continue Reading

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. Julian Bond

It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. Dalai Lama