Tag Archives: Nature

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.–Lao Tzu

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ― Mary Oliver

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. –Nelson Mandela

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Action expresses priorities. ― Mahatma Gandhi

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ― Mother Teresa

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. –Ruth Gordon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ― John Lennon

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. ― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Happy 5th Anniversary to the WOKies!

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ― Dr. Seuss

Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think … Continue reading →

Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more. –Loris Malaguzzi

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ― Maya Angelou

Clouds very high look not one word helped them get up there. ― Ikkyu

Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire. –William Butler Yeats Congratulations to all of the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation students who convocate today!  Enjoy your day, celebrate your achievements and go light some fires.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. ― Pat Conroy

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience … Continue reading →

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ― Ursula K. Le Guin

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ― Simone de Beauvoir

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes. – Henry David Thoreau  

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others..it rises from your heart. –Junko Tabai  

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.–Carl Sagan

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.–Steve Jobs file:///Users/TA/Desktop/945890_10152794441130551_117780212_n.jpg

The greatest competitor you’ll ever come up against is self doubt. – John McGrath

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. ― Daisaku Ikeda

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can’t develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. ― Daisaku Ikeda

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ― Alan Wilson Watts

Where ever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. … Continue reading →

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ― Thich Nhat Hanh