"Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

July 5, 1882 - February 5, 1927

"The meaning of the life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found ... by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can."

Paul Kurtz

born December 21, 1925

"It is not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves."

Edmund Hillary

July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."

Anonymous Chinese Proverb

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."

Charles A. Lindbergh

February 4, 1902 - August 26, 1974

"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment."

Jane Austin

December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817