"We are the pattern-makers, the watchers of the world, sorting through the entrails of the earth in an endless search for meaning. It has always been this way, as though consciousness carries with it the penalty of a pressing need to know. So we look for signs in everything, reading nature like a book, hoping always to come across some sort of message hidden between the lines. Some clue, some hint of direction, anything that will make it easier to understand who we are and what on earth we should be doing. There are no easy answers." Lyall Watson
"John Bardach helped shield me from the manic exactions of American academia while I wrote"- R.E. Johannes 1981 Acknowledgement in Words of the Lagoon.
"Imagination is More Important than Knowledge"
"Successful sea turtle conservation programs that endure are best built with local communities as their foundation" - G.H. Balazs 2014
"The Foreign blade sank deeper in the Hawaiian Heart" - Martha H. Noyes 2003 And Then There Were None.
"To see the world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of Your Hand, and Eternity in an hour" - William Blake
"Je pense que j'ai marché dans le jardin d'Eden" - G.H. Balazs, Paea District Tahiti 1964
"Years are coming, years are going, all things change and pass away. But the light of love is growing stronger, surer, day by day." - GB and EB Wedding Announcement 1937
"Now you know all there is to know. But it will be twenty years before you can see" - Mau Pialug Traditional Navigator of Satawal, Caroline Islands, FSM
"If they give you ruled paper write the other way"- Juan Ramon Jimenez
"What comes into the world so as not to disturb anything deserves neither consideration nor patience "- Alex Du Prel 1944-2017
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”- Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002
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