“If the sight of the blue skies
fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields
has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature have a message
that you understand,
rejoice,
for your soul is alive”

~ Eleonora Duse

*Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse

Born: October 3, 1858 | Vigevano, Italy
Died: April 21, 1924 (aged 65) | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and began acting as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four. Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently engaged. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt.

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“More than any other time in history,
mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
The other, to total extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom
to choose correctly.”

~ Woody Allen

“There are in nature
neither rewards nor punishments,
there are consequences.”

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man
than the way in which they can build
and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

~ Robert Lyndon

~ Chinese Proverb

~ Kurt Vonnegut

~ Marshall McLuhan ~

“The sun,
with all those planets revolving around it
and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

~ Galileo ~

“We abuse land
because we regard it as a commodity
belonging to us.
When we see land as a community
to which we belong,
we may begin to use it
with love and respect.”

~ Aldo Leopold

“Man belongs to earth,
earth does not belong to man.”

~ Native American Proverb

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise
if we have waited in the darkness.”

~ Author Unknown ~

Tony and I took our fourth sunrise trip yesterday. We have found a very special place in the Southern Appalachian Mountains that we view the mountain sunrise. Yesterday was the Autumn Equinox which added to the excitement.

I had been working on a Wallpaper Quote from a previous sunrise. It is finished and is our Wallpaper Quote of the week

Wallpaper Quote of the Week

“The foliage has been losing its freshness
through the month of August,
and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself
like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty
who has seen one season too many.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought for the Day

Today is September 22 2008, the first day of autumn, first day of fall, autumn equinox, autumnal equinox, fall equinox, no matter what you call it today is a special day. Today marks the changing of the seasons, it happens in the spring too, the spring equinox or the first day of spring.

The equinox, a specific moment in time not an entire day, night and day are almost equal. Equinox is latin, equi = equal, nox = night. It is said that during an equinox the sun can be observed directly over the equator. According to the Farmers Almanac the equinox occurs at 11:44 A.M eastern USA time.

The equinoxes are the only days the sun rises due east and sets due west.

I wish for you a pleasant and enjoyable First Day of Autumn.

Charley

“A nation that destroys its soils
destroys it self.
Forests are the lungs of our land,
purifying the air and
giving fresh strength to our people.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thought of the Day
As I continue my journey it continues to amaze me at the amounts of writings from many years ago that told of the impending doom. That man is creating the problems we are all suffering from today. Yet we continue to destroy, to try to control nature, instead of working with nature.

So what can we do to correct the errors of our grandfathers and our fathers? First we must gain a respect for nature and for mother earth. We must care for her just as she cares for us. We must learn that greed is not a natural desire, but a man made desire, created and exploited by the corporations. We must learn to share with nature and not just take what we want without ever putting back.

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