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Every Day is Earth Day

Nepal

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

– Khalil Gibran

Nepal
New Zealand

“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”

– Robert Frost

United States
South Africa

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to
decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

– Jane Goodall

Greece
Italy

“The whole world is, to me, very much “alive” – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on-within them.”

– Ansel Adams

Antarctica
Iceland

“When enough people come together,
then change will come and
we can achieve almost anything.”

– Greta Thunberg

Tahiti
New Zealand

“The environment is where we all meet;
where we all
have a mutual interest;
it is the one thing all of us share.”

– Lady Bird Johnson

Afghanistan
Tibet

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Kenya
Philippines

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your
bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

– Khalil Gibran

Tibet

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Sail Away

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…

Antarctica

…so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

Kolkata, India

Philippines

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
– Moslih Eddin Saadi

Himalaya Trek, Nepal

Italy

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
– Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Kashmir

Wadi Rum, Jordan

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The Old Delhi Train Station, India

Inle Lake, Burma/Myanmar

Venice, Italy

Rijeka, Croatia

Earth’s crammed with heaven.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan

Burma/Myanmar

The world is a book and those who
do not travel read only one page.
– St. Augustine

Amdo, Tibet

Dacca to Peshawar, India

West Bengal, India

Go far. Stay long. See deep.
And may the sun rise twice before you sleep.
Unknown

Umbria, Italy 

Kashmir

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
– Kurt Vonnegut

Australia

Australia

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined,
self-motivated, often risky – 
forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.  The world the way it is,
not the way you imagine it.

– Mark Jenkins

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Overcoming: Our Greatest Glory

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.

– Helen Keller

 Porbandar, India 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius

A man recycles bombshells into flowerpots in Kayan, Afghanistan

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things –
of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness,
our patience and our resilience, and in the end,
our ultimate desires.
– Sheri L. Dew

Indonesia

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

A good half of the art of living is resilience.
– Alain de Botton

Java, Indonesia


Make-believe conquers the tools of war as children clamber over an abandoned anti-aircraft gun in Beirut, Lebanon, 1982. These tools of war became an improvised playground demonstrating the resilience of children. No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment, children need to play. Whether it is splashing in puddles or climbing on abandoned tanks, their world of make-believe is almost as important as food and shelter.

Goa, India

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
– Bern Williams

A blind musician at the temple of Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia

This Tibetan man from Lhasa would walk five miles every day around the local Monastery as part of his Buddhist meditation practice.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.
– Thomas Edison


After the monsoon, this Indonesian woman attempts to rescue her rice plants. With the blackened earth flattened by the retreating floodwaters and trees stripped of their leaves, it is a bleak scene. The woman’s efforts are necessary for the continued subsistence of her family.

Students attend class in a partially destroyed building in central Kabul, Afghanistan.

Herat, Afghanistan

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
– Victor Hugo

Two young boys carry wood to their homes for the family’s cook fire.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
– Albert Bandura

Man carries his injured friend in Kabul, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan, was once known as a city of gardens. Afghans of all ages love to grow flowers and use them to decorate everything from their homes to their bicycles.

India

Baluchistan, Pakistan

A doctor with his patient in hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

India

 

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Water – The Essence of Life

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
Margaret Atwood

Weligama, Sri Lanka

Croatia

Cochin/Kochi, Kerala, South India

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden

Bencota, Sri Lanka

Nepal

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Queenstown, New Zealand

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Laozi

Umbria, Italy

Inle Lake, Burma/Myanmar

A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius

Rijeka, Croatia

Munich, Germany

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley

Dal Lake, Kashmir

Dominican Republic

Cascata Delle Marmore, Umbria, Italy

When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before and the
first of what is still to come.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sulu Sea, Philippines

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
Lord Byron

Umbria, Italy

Water is the soul of the Earth.
W. H. Auden

Sankei-en Garden, Yokohama, Japan

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Niger River, Mali

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans …
– Khalil Gibran

Fiji

Madrid, Spain

Water is also one of the four elements,
the most beautiful of God’s creations.
It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a
tendency to descend,
and flows with great readiness. 

John of Damascus, Syrian monk

Cape Town, South Africa

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Ireland

In time and with water, everything changes.
Leonardo da Vinci

Tibet

Tahiti, French Polynesia

All water has a perfect memory and is forever
trying to get back to where it was.

– Toni Morrison

Australia

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

California, USA

Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water?
All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and
it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

Zora Neale Hurston

Havana, Cuba

Fiji

Bombay, India

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller

Suri Tribe, Tulget, Omo Valley, Ethiopia

To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.

Masaru Emoto

Rajasthan, India

Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.

Maude Barlow

India

India

Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau

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Finding Home

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, 
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of 
old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Herat, Afghanistan

Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

Jodhpur, India

Sahel, Africa

Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
–  Dennis Lehane

Cambodia

Baluchistan, Pakistan

A  home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller

Tawi-Tawi, Philippines

Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot

Baluchistan

Allendale, South Carolina, USA

Nouakchatt, Mauritania

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson

La Fortuna, Honduras

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland

Kashmir

Karelia, Russia

Morocco

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale

Karelia, Russia

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.

– Robert Frost

Mizoram, India

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

McCurry family home, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA