PENNY BROWNLEE - Intelligence in children

 "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

Quotes From DANCE WITH ME IN THE HEART

 

"Babies and children feel nurture and care as love. So we do when we are ill, so do our elders when they are in rest homes. Nurture and Care." ~Dance with me in the Heart 

"Dare to speak your perspective, respectfully, in order to facilitate understanding.

Dare to hear their perspective, respectfully, in order to understand.

Dare to keep the relationship open, and that could mean agreeing to disagree, respectfully." ~Dance with me in the heart 

"Every one of us knows the feeling when someone has time for us, when they are relaxed in our presence, and when they want to share what's going on for them with us. We also know when they are interested in what is up for us and what's important in our world. …// Conversely, we are good at detecting when others aren’t interested, or at least, aren’t prepared to stop and pay us their attention. In our busy lives this impacts on all of us, but especially on our children. Things that would be attended to - and let go - can build up. Misunderstandings and worries can get out of hand." ~Dance with me in the Heart, Growing Healthy Relationships Takes Time

"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 

Tiokasin Ghosthorse - Humanity

 “Humanity must shift from living on the Earth to living with her.” ~Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Victoria Coren Mitchell ~ Nature’s therapy

 “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

Sylvester McNut - Flow, grow and adapt

 “Life is one big wave, and all we can do is flow, grow, and adapt.” ~Sylvester McNut

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler - A great Artist

 “...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

Hugh Speirs Quotes

 “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)

DENIS KEVANS Quotes

“The truth is our greatest of weapons,
Believe lies and your brains will decay,

Try to find the truth, try to find the reason,

Try to find the truth every day.”

~Denis Kevans

KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM Quotes

"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

Alicia Coutts - Courage counts

 

30 May 2017 

On my daughter’s Graduation Day

 “Success isn’t final. Failure isn’t fatal. It’s courage that counts.” ~Alicia Coutts  

Densey Clyne - Count your Blessings

 

17 February 2020

Hosted by Yolly 

Mallacoota VICTORIA

“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.” ~Densey Clyne

DR. RICHARD ‘Harry’ HARRIS. Quotes

"A lifetime of experience and preparation can sometimes culminate in event you have never plan for or expect.” ~Dr. Richard 'Harry' Harris

[“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]

Source: FB

 "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 

Nelson Henderson - Trees

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

GRAEME A. S. BROWNE - On Respect "Respect is something you earn. You can't beg, borrow, or steal it. It's a process of right doings." ~Graeme A. S. Browne

LOU ERICKSON - GARDENING

 

15 September 2018

Mayfield Garden, Oberon NSW

 "Gardening requires lots of water…most of it in the form of perspiration." ~Lou Erickson

MARGARET PRESTON - On Age "No one is ever too old to know better." ~Margaret Preston

PINDAR Quotes

 "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

THEODORE ROETHKE Quotes (1908-1963)

 "Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." ~Theodore Roethke"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." ~Theodore Roethke "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." ~Theodore Roethke "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." ~Theodore Roethke "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." ~Theodore Roethke 

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." ~Theodore Roethke

DANIELLA ROCHFORD - ON IDENTITY "Let your own identity mould you and always be true to yourself, your country and your people.… Never allow yourself to be the duplicate of others for the sake of their happiness because … You are original." ~Daniella Rochford (lifted from Muja Mundu Creations)

ALEXANDER HAIG - ON IDEALS "Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level." ~Alexander Haig

JIM HIGHTOWER - IDEA "Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy." ~Jim Kettering

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Quotes

 "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time … The wait is simply too long." ~Leonard Bernstein 

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~Leonard Bernstein 

FRANK TIBOLT - INSPIRATION

  "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." ~Frank Tibolt

PATANJALI Quotes

"In deep meditation, the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil." ~Patanjali 

"Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart." ~Patanjali

"Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest." ~Patanjali

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." ~Patanjali 

 

Quotes on ENVIRONMENT and HABITAT

"I think that slavishly following or not following rules is outdated thinking. If it looks good to you and you enjoy your environment, then it's right. I see lots of designer rooms I think are ugly or tense looking to be enjoyed." ~Elsie Hickman

"Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save endangered indicator species: the child in nature." ~Richard Louv (from Dance with me in the Heart)

"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

"Traveling comes in various styles- my style is walking slowly as I carefully observe people and the environment. While some like people find traveling alone boring, I don’t. I like to observe, appreciate and give thanks to God for every beautiful scene." ~Mirella Macatula 

“When you are where wild bears live you learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.” ~Linda Jo Hunter

OTHERS

“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore..." ~Lord Byron

"Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve."  ~Enos Mills