happy mother’s day

Today’s post is for my mom…her unconditional love and infinite belief in me has made me who I am today…I’d like to share with you a few quotes from some of her favorite inspirations…her appetite for knowledge and zest for life is immeasurable…she is my inspiration

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“At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it – if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature gives us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can’t see anything green during the day? Just because we can’t sell shares in nature doesn’t mean it has no value.” ~ Thomas L. Friedman

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“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” ~ E. O. Wilson

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“If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.” ~ Lewis Thomas

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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“I live on Earth at present,

and I don’t know what I am.

I know that I am not a category. 

I am not a thing — a noun.

I seem to be a verb,

an evolutionary process —

an integral function of the universe.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

photo by me, for mom ~ with all my love, danielle

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