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Muskoka Falls

 

 

  

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

 

Muskoka Wildflower

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882)

Hoover Dam

 

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Lake Joseph Boathouses

 

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau (1817 –1862)


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Joanne Whitmore, April 2011
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. Similarly, we don't need to wait to run out of fossil fuels before shifting to a greener economy.
Art Buchwald, 1970

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use.  And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried:  "Look at this Godawful mess."

 

Words to Live By
Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto Caving Society
Rachel Carson (1907 –1964)
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves.