Apiarian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got

a tolerable planet to put it on?”

~Henry David Thoreau

"When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men

and women are approaching an inevitable doom:

the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate

of each other. This feeling should make human beings use their best

efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road,

to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on.

It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding,

and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers

who must live a common life and die a common death."

~Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

"The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that

we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children."

~Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

"There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which is eternal, within us."

~ The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”

~Coretta Scott King

"We work in the dark -- we do what we can -

- we give what we have."

~Henry James (1843-1916)

"The sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be."

~Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. Al

l human progress, even in morals

, has been the work of men who have doubted

the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up

and tried to enforce them.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant,

in this field as in all others.

His culture is based on "I am not too sure."

-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic