January 2011
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“Industrial education has abandoned the old duty of passing on the cultural and...”
– Wendell Berry, 1989
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“Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of...”
– Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by Peace Convention - Boston, 1838
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December 2010
1 post
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WatchI’ve been having this kind of day.
November 2010
3 posts
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WatchHeimo’s Arctic Refuge
From the website:
In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the refuge—of them, only one...
October 2010
8 posts
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“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve...”
– Aldo Leopold, A Taste for Country
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“Progress still consists largely of letterhead pieties and convention oratory.”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
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“The man who cannot enjoy his leisure is ignorant, though his degrees exhaust the...”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
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“In our schools we should abolish political curricula and examinations that are...”
– Liu Xiaobo, China’s Charter 08
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WatchSleeping Betty
A short film by Canadian animator Claude Cloutier.
From the website of the film:
In a sumptuous palace in the basement of a house in a Montreal working-class neighbourhood, Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king is at her bedside. He appeals to Uncle Henri VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and, why not, a handsome prince! This worthy...
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“When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process...”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
September 2010
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Watch“Wisdom of Birds” author Tim Birkhead tours a trove of old birdwatcher lore, and talks about the role it plays in ornithology today.
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“Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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WatchJ’ai regardé ce vidéo plusiers fois en apprenant la façon de tisser une ceinture fléchée. La fois prochaine que je vais au Winnipeg, j’acheterai de la laine pour que je peux commencer tisser ma propre ceinture fléchee comme celle-ci. Il sera un bon projet pour faire le soir à coté du feu.
I’ve watched this video several times, learning how to weave a voyageur sash. Next time I...
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“As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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WatchThis is the guy who created the books of awesome houses that have been a good part of my inspiration for building my own place. Check out his blog.
earlofgrey:
Lloyd Kahn on Shelter.
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“Unschooling is an acknowledgment that schools and education are in many ways...”
– Jason Price, as quoted by The Globe and Mail
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“A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless to the alphabetical conservationist...”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
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“For my panacea… let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
A 'Quote of the Day', Perhaps
I think I might try to post one quote per day from whatever I’ve been reading lately (which is quite the variety), just for fun. It may be erratic, but why not?
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“If you’re not from the prairie, you can’t know my soul,
You...”
– David Bouchard, If you’re not from the prairie…
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“Indeed, to admit of dehumanization as an historical vocation would lead either...”
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863
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July 2010
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Andrew Bird
I saw Andrew Bird tonight, and he was awesome. Check him out.
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June 2010
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May 2010
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“Well, you know what Thoreau said: ‘simplicity, simplicity,...”
– Seth Heinrichs
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Gulf Oil Spill
by John Francis
(view original article here)
A few days after the BP oilrig Deepwater Horizon, exploded, caught fire and started spewing black crude into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the emails and calls expressing sympathy started to come in. Not that I own stock in BP or lost a loved one in the disaster, but because my life had been changed by a much smaller spill back in 1971 when...
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“We should refuse to do business with the dollar, and get rid of it as soon as...”
– Osama Bin Laden (Note: I have no intensions of converting to radical Islam, but I am quite happy to quote anybody who has something of value to say. Heck, I would even quote Stephen Harper if he actually uttered something worthwhile.)
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“There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing...”
– Lord Byron
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April 2010
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“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to...”
– Henry David Thoreau, in his essay ‘Civil Disobedience’
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“The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do...”
– Henry David Thoreau, in his essay ‘Civil Disobedience’
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“A bear in the snare is worth two in the lair.”
– Seth Heinrichs
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“What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and...”
– Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, published in 1944. View the full essay here.
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“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...”
– George Orwell
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