APRIL 2017
April 2017
"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life." - Elie Wiesel
"A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop." - Tom Frieden
MARCH 2017
March 2017
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" - Pablo Casals
"Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive."
- Philippe Cousteau Jr.
"You are what you eat eats." - Michael Pollan ( In Defense of Food )
"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact..that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of he spirit which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.." - Martin Luther King Jr.
FEBRUARY 2017
February, 2017
"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 D. Roosevelt
"Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger, ( chiffoinier ) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find." - Francois Magendie
"Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." - Dean Koontz, False Memory
JANUARY 2017
IT'S THE WEEKEND, DOG! Jan 2017
"The circus is a jealous wench. Indeed that is an understatement. She is a ravening hag who sucks your vitality as a vampire drinks blood - who kills the brightest stars in her crown and will allow no private life for those who serve her, wrecking their homes, ruining their bodies, and destroying the happiness of their loved ones by her insatiable demands. She is all of these things and yet, I love her as I love nothing else on earth.". - Henry Ringling North, The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story
"Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder." - W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." - John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens." - Isaac Bashevis Singer