“As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.” ThinkingKidsCitiesClassTreeWallAreasTownsImpulseClimbsSmall TownDance ClassRural AreasBoyish Author:Jamie Bell
“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.” ThinkingArtTreeRainAreasCloudsGiantsNativeNative AmericanPacificPacific Northwest Author:Kyle MacLachlan
“I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.” HomeRunningNextStuffTreeMinutesDogExerciseOne DayMountainTrainingAreasWeightBrilliantHillsNext DayMy DogCircuitsPull UpsCircuit TrainingHills And Mountains Author:Bear Grylls
“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.” IfsWorldLooksWholeLightDarkMysteryTreeGrewAreasWhole WorldForestsEveningChristmas TreeBest Christmas Author:Andy Rooney
“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.” UsedLossTreeOceanLowsAreasMovedFilledTinyShoreMexicoTidesFloridaShallowJerseyMeadowsParkingNew JerseyBackyardsParking LotBay AreaGulf Of MexicoShoreline Author:Sylvia Earle
“When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.” NeedsFirstsDealsIssuesTreeAreasResponseInnocentRural Areas Author:Wangari Maathai
“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.' That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.” KnowsWellsTogetherFatherCompanyTreeSkyAreasTouchingWoundedInterruptedObstinateObstinacy Book:In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's Source: In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's
“Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayLooksDifferentLightWould BeEyeSoundAnimalAirTreeSkyColorTasteRedAreasGreenWaveTongueAccessSensesHeyPerceiveDifferent WaysRadiationSpectrumMoleculesInfrared Book:Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life