“To be truely radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.”

— Raymond Williams (A British Historian)

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

— William Bruce Cameroon

“The purpose of life is to discover your gifts. The work of life is to develop them and the meaning of life is to give them away.”

I like David Viscott’s quote with the gift pluralized in it to suit my beliefs. I believe we have many gifts, not just one.

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

— David Viscott

“… a good ecologist must have a broad synthetic mind, an ability to practice strong inference, and a sense of place or a feel for nature (that is, they must be respectful, alert, observant, and intuitive).”

— Paul K. Dayton (Observation & Ecology : Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World)

“To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and, in every known society, practices both together.”

— Jacob Bronowski