Knothole Knews: WELCOME TO KNOTHOLE KNEWS!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

WELCOME TO KNOTHOLE KNEWS!

This has been the best year ever! I photographed a hooded crane -- a Siberian native rarely seen in Idaho, journeyed to southern Arizona for more birding adventures, relaxed at the Oregon Coast in mid-July, and marveled at the spectacular autumn colors of Downeast Maine in October. In the course of the year's journey, I've enjoyed watercolor painting, English Country dancing, and working with native plants, as my front yard is beginning to attest. The best part of all this has been time with friends and family, especially the bounty of discussions and excursions with jonathan.

I hope you'll enjoy the ongoing adventures in narrative and images as much as I enjoy them first-hand!

Exploring Downeast Maine in October... stay tuned for more tales of adventure!

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Knoble Knuggets

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own
and you know what you know.
And YOU are the one
who'll decide where you go...
- Dr. Seuss

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Unfold, leaf by leaf.
Become more and more intimate with life.
Ask no cold question of any joyous thing.
Go to all living things gently, listening for
the wonder of the breath and the heartbeat.
Ask all successful and happy creatures for a clue.
- Stuart P. Sherman

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Nobody sees a flower really;
it is so small.
We haven't time,
and to see takes time -
like to have a friend
takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
- Earl Gray

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
- C. W. Leadbetter

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
- Max Born

You can never learn less;
you can only learn more.
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
- Werner Heisenberg

Religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
- Albert Einstein

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
- Alan Chadwick

In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability.
- Pew Oceans Report, 2003

Miracles happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature.
- Saint Augustine

When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.
- Zen koan

You can get help from teachers,
but you are going to have to
learn a lot by yourself,
sitting alone in a room.
- Dr. Seuss

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
- Alexander von Humboldt

If you never did, you should.
These things are fun,
and fun is good.
- Dr. Seuss

Wholesome exercise
in the free air,
under the wide sky,
is the best medicine
for body and spirit.
- Sarah Louise Arnold

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
- Hal Borland

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- Chief Seattle

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
- Jimmy Carter

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.
- Sigmund Jahn

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
- Hippocrates

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Enough is abundance
to the wise.
- Euripedes

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
- Richard Bach

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
- John Sawhill

The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind
as to the body.
- Joseph Addison

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
- Hellen Keller

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Be who you are and
say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter
and those who matter
don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
- Shirley MacLaine

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- G.B. Stern