"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)
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"Beauty is like wealth, it may not make you happy, but having it sure helps." ~Melissa Fields Kaminska
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” ~Elaine Heffner, quote lifted from Jack Bell Photography
“If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.” ~Miranda Kerr
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had think of bottling.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zapon, The Angels Game
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author, The Shadow of the Wind
“People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people.” ~Garima Shrivas
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” ~Blithe Spirit
“My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.” ~
“Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.” ~Blithe Spirit
“Learning in one’s innermost heart is more important than outward activities.” ~Carlos Cardoso Aveline
“Earth is so thick with Divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.” ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
“A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.” ~Jay Griffiths
“A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own.” ~Jay Griffiths
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.” ~Jay Griffiths
“As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.” ~Jay Griffiths
“Every generation of children instinctively nests itself in nature, no matter matter how tiny a scrap of it they can grasp.” ~Jay Griffiths
“If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.” ~Jay Griffiths
"The human heart's love for nature cannot ultimately be concreted over. “ ~Jay Griffiths
“There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell. But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun, which will melt the wax of the mind, and the fall will be terrible.” ~Jay Griffiths
“We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.… We are animal not only in body but in spirit. Our minds are the minds of wild animals. Artists, who remember their wildness better than most, are animal artists, lifting their heads to sniff a quick wild scent in the air, and they know it unmistakably, they know the tug of wildness to be followed through your life is buckled by that strange and absolute obedience.” ~Jay Griffiths
“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.” ~Wild: An Elemental Journey
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honours.” ~We Are Human Angels The Book
“When it feels like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders, it is time to let go of some serious baggage. For starters, let go of responsibilities that belongs to others. Let go of things beyond your control. Let go of past mistakes. Let go of regrets. Let go.” ~Paul Boynton, Begin With Yes
“Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.” ~Susan Meddaugh
“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” ~Andrea Gordon
“The music that touches you in your youth is magnified as you get older. Each record can be a virtual time machine - all you need is to hear a second or two and you go back to that place and time when you first heard it. It’s a brilliant feeling when music touches you so profoundly and stays with you through time.” ~ Rob Halford
"In the catalogues there is only flowering perfection and there are only flawless fruits. So we read allow the catalogues eagerly, and plant once more, which is an annual experiment, an annual thrill." ~Gladys Taber
"Some things will grow for you; some will not. Climate is not something to ignore; nor is the consistency of soil, nor location." ~Gladys Taber
"There's a kind of immortality in every garden." ~Gladys Taber
"Each person you meet is in a specific stage of their life, a stage you may have passed or not yet reached. Judging them by your standards and experience is therefore not only unfair, but could lead to unnecessary anger and frustration." ~Anon
"Surely the world we live in is but the world that live in us." ~Daisy May Bates
"Antioxidants in spices are known to increase the body's ability to counter oxidative stress. This helps the body to create a balance between the red and white blood cells." ~The Fit Wellness Group
“Breathe. Take care. Stand still for a minute. What you are looking for might just be looking for you too.” ~Cleo Wade
"Love never dies ... may this restore your spirit and comfort your heart." ~Victoria Triggs
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere." ~Catherine DeVrye
"Life isn't about finding yourself - it's about creating yourself." ~Catherine DeVrye
"The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without dream." ~Catherine DeVrye
"Things only change and happen when people are prepared to take risks. You don't get anywhere by sitting back." ~Christine Manfield
"I think of life itself now as wonderful play I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." ~Shirley Maclain
"The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment, ultimately you do to yourself." ~Ian Somerhalder
"Gratitude derives from a characteristic of the soul: it is the most fertile land we can cultivate within ourselves, it is the key to making sense and seeing the value of the miracle of life to which we are witness.
"Without history, there is no memory. Without memory, there is no future. If we don't learn from the past, we repeat the same mistakes again." ~Max Eisen, now 91 Holocaust Survivor, then 15 in 1944 Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Poland. An excerpt from the movie: The Accountant of Auschwitz and his book: By Chance Alone
“Come with me. Share it with me. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save the things that they love. My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet is to save wildlife. And I thank you for coming with me.” ~Steve Irwin
“We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.” ~Steve Irwin
“Where I live if someone gives you a hug, it’s from the heart.” ~Steve Irwin
"I’ve learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances…street noises, loud talk, music, you name it." ~Sylvia Porter
“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.” ~ Paul Hawken
“I would advise people not to rest when they grow old because if you rest, you will soon become very weak and incapable, and may become senile. Be active after you reach retirement age. It is the same as your muscles. If you don’t use your muscles and lie down all the time, the muscles cannot even carry your weight. You cannot stand. You cannot walk. The brain is the same. If you don’t use your brain, you don’t think, you don’t read, you don’t write, the brain regresses and you become senile. So always be active.” ~Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former PM of Malaysia
"Your darkness is a symphony. Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in love with noise. If they refuse to applaud you, it isn't because your music isn't beautiful. It is because they have no idea how to love what they don't understand. And that, my darling, is the most horrific flaw in this mixed up world.” ~Christopher Poindexter
“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.” ~W. E. Johns
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart and the most powerful weapon is an instrument of peace.” ~Carlos Santayana
“Have a heart soft enough to give love and mercy. But that is wise enough to know boundaries.” ~Kayil Crow
"Although this world loves to stir up powerful storms, and endless fits of rage, it's because of those storms I have the strength to endure whatever comes my way." ~Kayil Crow
"Don't give up. Your life has a purpose. Is a purpose. You're merely a bloom out of season. In need of sunshine. But darling the most beautiful blooms take time to open up. There's always a seed before it grows into what it's meant to be." ~Kayil Crow
"Even in the storms, the violent winds and the destructive thunder, she danced with the raindrops." ~Kayil Crow
"Give yourself some grace. Yes I know the harsh punishment you place on yourself. I know because I'm guilty of doing the same. But you deserve grace. Don't be so hard on yourself, Because there's so much to life than living under the constant scrutiny you give yourself." ~Kayil Crow
"Holding on to hate is like drinking a disease. It corrupts your entire being, and will eventually kill you." ~Kayil Crow
"I followed my heart. It didn't always lead me in the right direction. But it always lead me to the exact place I needed to be. Home." ~Kayil Crow
"I only built these walls praying that one day someone like you would be strong enough to tear them down." ~Kayil Crow
"I still chase the dreams I set out for when I was young. Because I believe it's never too late to seek the desires of your heart." ~Kayil Crow
"It's not about how we fall, the way we fall, or how hard we fall. It's about how we get back up, it's how we rise, and how we get back on our feet." ~Kayil Crow
"Know your worth. So you know when to walk away when someone is taking you for granted." ~Kayil Crow
"She had the type of power that bloomed roses into the minds of the ones who didn't believe in miracles." ~Kayil Crow
"She wanted certain things not many other girls talked about. She envisioned dreams of marriage, of a love that tattoos your very pulse. Not one night stands. But her mouth couldn't voice the desires of her heart just yet. Not until a similar soul comes along to show her that her dream was also his dream. And it would be the perfect time to start the dream of forever." ~Kayil Crow
"Thrive on the way you choose to grow. Not on how others think you should be growing." ~Kayil Crow
“Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.” ~Ram Nath Kovind
“It matters not if you have stood with the great. What really makes a difference is if you have sat with the broken, walked with the lost, and loved the lonely.” ~Sheri Bessi Eckert
Photo: CTTO
“Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.” ~Abd-el-Kadar
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
“It's a fateful moment in history. We've seen divisive elections, divided societies and the growth of extremism -- all fueled by anxiety and uncertainty. Is there something we can do, each of us, to be able to face the future without fear?" ~Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, TED 2017, Ideas worth spreading
"Those who teach the most about humanity aren't always humans." ~Donald L. Hicks
"Learning is the not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners." ~John Holt
“Yelling at a bud won’t make it bloom. Speak gently to your children.” ~Courtney Joseph
"If we want to see the intelligence in children 'come out to play', then we have to make sure they have enough loose parts to play with." ~Penny Brownlee
"Ideally, the teacher knows the genetically encoded play patterns and intelligences of the human child. Aware of these biological patterns of unfolding child development, teachers procure and scavenge materials to put the child ‘in the driver's seat’.” ~Dance with me in the heart
“If, in a relationship we have to do what another demands in order to keep them happy, the casualty is our own true self. It is not easy to love the ’self’ if we have lost it to a dysfunctional power dynamic. This is as true for toddlers and children as it is for teens and for us.” ~ Dance with me in the Heart, January 23, 2020
“It is in the processes of imagining, reckoning, creating, making etc that the learning happens, that knowledge is made and skills are perfected." ~Dance with me in the heart
"No one can GIVE us knowledge. We must MAKE it for ourselves, out of our experience." ~Dance with me in the heart
"Our great need in these times is to remember and tell the story of our Interdependence with all Life on Earth - yes, wasps, ants and spiders too. It is only when we begin to treat all Life as Sacred that we restore our place in the Common Unity of the Earth's Biosphere" ~Dance with me in the heart
"Set aside time to hang out and listen. Listening is the glue of relationship." ~Dance with me in the Heart
“Speak good things
Words have wings"
~Dance with me in the Heart
Our children download the language we speak, in the same accent, using the vocabulary we use, and - and this is the sobering bit - using the same language-thought patterns and intonation. Our words become their inner voice which will either acknowledge them or dismiss them, encourage them or taunt them, lift them or flatten them. We don't have to be psychologists to work out the healthy option. Speak good things. We can do this.” ~Dance with me in the Heart
"So many children are drawn to collecting stones. Every outing in Nature is an opportunity to extend the Stone Family that resides in their bedroom, under the bed, in the wardrobe, on the dresser. Many Indigenous Nations refer to the stones and rocks as Grandmothers, Ancestors who were here before the plants and animals, Ancestors who hold an ancient wisdom. Maybe our children can still feel that wisdom in their soul." ~Dance with me in the heart lifted from Treasure Stones
“The Curiosity Approach”
Babies are born curious.
Curiosity begins exploration.
Exploration means getting into things.
Getting into things means making sense of the world.
Making sense of the world raises more questions.
More questions mean intelligence unfolding.
So maybe we'd be better to Stop!
Breathe.
And smile at our little scientists rather than yell at them.
~Dance with me in the heart
"The school system we have all been marinated in has left many of us with an interesting take on the nature of intelligence. Few of us are aware that there are many different aspects to human intelligence, and that the traditional education uses-tests-and-measures just a small fraction of the intelligence-potentialities each student is born with." ~Dance with me in the heart
"... warm, secure emotional-nurturing is the one thing every baby is expecting, from birth onward. The bonded relationship is the baby’s first ‘romance’ with Life." ~Dance with me in the Heart
OTHERS
"You can't get blood out of a stone."
~Mother of Dance with me in the Heart
“Humanity must shift from living on the Earth to living with her.” ~Tiokasin Ghosthorse
“The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.” ~Victoria Coren Mitchell
“Life is one big wave, and all we can do is flow, grow, and adapt.” ~Sylvester McNut
“...a great artist is one who alters the world for us, for ever.” ~ Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, quote lifted from Hugh Speirs book ‘Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains.
BIO
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German-born art historian, art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art. Wikipedia
“Sometimes I have glimpsed this world lit by a dew drop. … Hanging like some beautiful crystal ball from a minute fern frond.” ~Hugh Speirs, Artist, (embossed on a rock sculpture gallery featured at Echo Point, The Three Sisters, Katoomba in The Blue Mountains)
Try to find the truth, try to find the reason,
Try to find the truth every day.”
~Denis Kevans
"And if there's one thing we can learn from this park and this woman is that, no water should ever be wasted, not even one drop of it.” ~ NAS DAILY, YouTube on Kotchakorn Voraachom, Landscape Architect of Thailand.
"Every rainfall is a wake up call.” ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
“Farming is a crucial part of our country’s heritage. The urban farm is training a new generation of organic farmers with real-world skills. It also fosters a sense of community.” ~ ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom (See Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm — located in busy Bangkok, by Karen Frances Eng, March 13, 2020, TED writer)
"In the heart of this (most damaging and expensive disaster typhoon) I found my calling. I cannot just sit and wait as my city continue to sink. The city needed me, and I have the ability to fix this (flood) problem.” ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom ( See Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm — located in busy Bangkok, by Karen Frances Eng, March 13, 2020, TED writer)
"Landscape architecture gives me the opportunity to continue my cracking ambition to connect this concrete land back to nature." ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
“No matter how rough the path, how big is the crack you push to your goal because that's where your heart is.” ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
"Tang Jai - means to firmly stand - (jai pronounced 'chay' - means heart. Your heart will be ÿour action. “ ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
"Thailand is home. This land is my only home. And that is where I firmly stand my heart." ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
“The green roof and urban farm at Thammasat University show how climate resilience-focused development can perhaps begin to contribute more environmental benefits than problems. And maybe even help resolve some of the problems of the past.” ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom (See Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm — located in busy Bangkok, by Karen Frances Eng, March 13, 2020, TED writer)
“The park is not getting rid of water. It is about getting a way how to live with it. “ ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
“When the wind blows over the water in the ponds, it creates a microclimate that also cools the atmosphere.” ~Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Bio/Source:
Thai Landscape Architect, "How To Transform Sinking Cities into Landscapes that Fight Floods", November 2018, TED, Palm Spring, CALIFORNIA, YouTube
On my daughter’s Graduation Day
“Success isn’t final. Failure isn’t fatal. It’s courage that counts.” ~Alicia Coutts
[“A lot of people have called those involved in this rescue heroes. That doesn’t sit very well with me. I was doing two things that I enjoy at the end of the day, cave diving and anaesthesia. Courage is doing something that frightens you and neither of those things were particularly concerning to me.
“The one thing I am proud of is the fact that I found the courage to make the decision to proceed with this plan. In all good leaders, it is the courage to actually make a decision and make it in a timely manner." ~Dr RHH, Ozwater 20 Online From the article written by Cecilia Harris]
"For a completely desperate group of international people to come together with the goal of saving the lives of 12 children and their coach that you've never met before that tells me that the spirit of humanity is still alive." ~Dr. Richard 'Harry' Harris, SA Anaesthetist and expert Cave Diver, Australian of the Year 2019
"You don’t have to be good at everything, but you’re very lucky in life if you can find one thing that you are good and passionate about, because you never know where it will lead." ~Dr. Richard Harry Harris, Ozwater Online
"You have to suffer a few bruises and scrapes along the way to grow normally." ~Dr. Richard Harry Harris, Push to get kids outdoor, ABCNews
12 May 2018
Orange Botanic Gardens
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” ~Nelson Anderson
15 September 2018
Mayfield Garden, Oberon NSW
"Gardening requires lots of water…most of it in the form of perspiration." ~Lou Erickson
"Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection." ~Pindar
"The test of any man lies in action." ~Pindar
