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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility
from there.
- Gary Snyder
Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries
of the universe.
- Thomas Berry
The one who does not play the guitar can sing a song; the one
who does not sing a song can write a verse; the one who does
not write a verse reads a book.
- Proverb, Ecuador
We can't wait for miracles to happen. If there are problems
that have to be solved, if we want our lives to be better, then
we have to do something for ourselves. If we're not taking action
to make our life better, if we're not walking, if our feet are
not moving, then there's no footprint for people to follow.
- Oliver Mtukudzi, World
Music Central
I only trek the paths that have heart, whatever path that has
heart. (Para mi solo recorrer los caminos que tienen corazon,
cualquier camino que tenga corazon.)
- Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
Think globally, act locally, respond personally.
- Popular expression
Tsimba Itsoka (There is no footprint without the foot)
- Shona proverb cited by Oliver
Mtukudzi
Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand.
- Chinese proverb
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Irish proverb
No more standing on the sidelines.
- Popular saying
Is it better to play a sport badly, or watch others do it
well?
- Sports
Factor
What are you going to so that you can arrive on your deathbed
50 years from now with a big grin on your face that says 'lord
sakes that was a ripper. that was a good life well lived.' For
me that means engaging meaningfully with what I think I am here
on the planet to do.
- Petrea King,
Bush
Telegraph
There is no place that does not see you. You must change your
life.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (Archaic Torso of Apollo)
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute
for putting one foot in front of the other.
- Mary Caroline Richards
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
- Thomas
Edison
It's not the big leap, but the small step that makes the journey.
- Popular saying
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or
whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages
must show.
- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Ask, believe, receive.
- The Secret
Fortune favors the audacious.
- Desiderius
Erasmus
Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My obligation is this: To be transparent.
- Pablo
Neruda
What unifies a movement? After we go home from the demonstration,
are we still a movement? Only if we're grounded in a shared
vision … Having a vision means we have some fundamental
idea of how we want the world to be … A movement articulates
something for the future … It's not enough to express our
individualities. What kind of a world do you want for everybody?
And how can that world be demonstrated?
- Michael Ventura, Letters
at 3AM
It's our game. They just play it.
- Fan's assessment of Australian footy,
Sports
Factor
Look ahead for open spaces. Let young people be given the opportunity
of taking an active and not merely a passive interest in games.
It is often said that our young men are too much addicted to
outdoor games - cricket, football etc., but I think the contrary
is the case. They are possibly too much addicted to looking
at games, and that is not a healthy exercise. They like to congregate
in crowds, often cooped up in enclosures, and that leads to
barracking, cigarette smoking and even gambling on the result
of the game. A remedy for the gambling evil and an encouragement
of manly sports with the physical development and moral discipline
which healthy competition affords, lies not mainly in places
like the Sydney Cricket Ground. I look upon that institution
as the place of spectacle, as the university of sport.
- Joseph Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Rugby
League: More than just a game
Bristol's fans are the 16th man on the pitch.
- BBC
When you come to a wall that is too high to climb you should
throw your cap over the wall so that you have no choice but
to find a way over the wall.
- Irish proverb
Don't forget why you came to the dance.
- Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yell
Fire, Everybody Ona Move
When a thing is intelligible, you have a sense of participation;
when a thing is unintelligible you have a sense of estrangement.
- E.F.
Schumacher, Small
is Beautiful
Don't be a horse race, be marathon. Don't fear the long road,
coz on a long road, u got a long time to sing a simple song.
And it's never too late to start the day over. It's never too
late to pick up the phone.
- Michael Franti, Everyone
deserves music
A desire
path could be a short cut through waste ground, across the
corner of a civic garden or down an embankment. They were expressions
of free will, 'paths with a passion', an alternative to the
strictures of railings, fences and walls that turned individuals
into powerless apathetic automatons. On desire paths you could
break out, explore, feel your way across the landscape.
- Nick Crane, Two degrees west
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how
you play it.
- Tom Lehrer
No one's center is like anyone else's. Find your own center,
not the center of your neighbor, not the center of your father
or mother or family or ancestor, but the center that is yours
and yours alone.
- Malidoma Some, Of
Water and the Spirit
The map is not the territory.
- Alfred
Korzybski
Please stop referring to yourselves as consumers. Consumers
are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations,
responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. As
long as you are using the word 'consumer' in the public discussion
you are degrading the discussion we are having and we are going
to continue being clueless.
- James Howard Kunstler, The
tragedy of suburbia
Engage us or enrage us.
- Marc Prensky
Ask yourself: 'Am I ready to stop equating cynicism with insight?
Do I dare take the risk that exposing myself to uplifting entertainment
might dull my intelligence?' If you doubt your ability to handle
relaxing breakthroughs, you should stop reading now.
- Rob Brezsny, Secrets
of Pronoia/The Sun (PDF)
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