Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout troop deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in.”
― Edward Abbey

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Simply put, reverence is the virtue that keeps human beings from trying to act like gods.”
– Paul Woodruff

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.”
– David Brower

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
– Dr. Seuss

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
– Bill Watterson

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
– Roald Dahl

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"If we don't have certain outer experiences, we don't have certain inner experiences, or at least we don't have them in a profound way.  We need the sun, the moon, the stars, the rivers and the mountains and birds, the fish in the sea, to evoke a world of mystery, to evoke the sacred."
– Thomas Berry

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"We have an acute, almost biological, impulse to provide for our children, to give them everything they want and need, to protect them from dangers and discomforts both large and small.  And yet we know on some level at least that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship, some challenge, some deprivation they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.“
– Paul Tough

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”
– Native American Proverb

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
– L.R. Knost

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”
– David Brower

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
– Tom Robbins

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.“
– Native American proverb

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.“
– John Lubbock

Merry Christmas!

"Ho ho ho!  Go outside and have fun!"
– Santa Claus

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother”
– Jane Goodall

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
– Gaylord Nelson

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
– Blackfoot Proverb

Happy Thanksgiving

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything
which is natural which is infinite
which is yes

– e.e. cummings