Oooooo I really like this #InspirationalIntermission #2026mmm a very good reminder for us all. The smallest of efforts can move mountains if we all do our part.
Photo of a golden mantled ground squirrel looking stoic and epic with the quote "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are" by Teddy Roosevelt.
Two Oryx walk a sand dune in silhouette as the sun sets behind them with the quote "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
QUOTE "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M. Forster over a photograph of a moss covered nursery log with a new free growing from it and the forest in the background.
IMAGE OF SNOWCOVERED MOUNTAINS AND VALLEY AS BISON GRAZE WITH TEXT FROM QUOTE "Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?” -Rachel Carson
"Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities." said by R. David Lankes with a photo of a library community members actively engaged with one another.
Painting of a quagga, extinct subspecies of zebra, with text that says “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together… all things connect.” -Chief Si’ahl, Namesake of Seattle
"The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong." -John Muir on a photo of a Grizzly Bear Mama with 3 cubs.
Two young moose nuzzle noses standing in a wide shallow creek with text that reads "It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature." -Teddy Roosevelt
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.” -Barbara Kingsolver Quote super-imposed on a photo of white sands with a tan & brown lizard
“In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is only one Earth. Let’s take care of it.” -United Nations over an image of the milky way lighting up the night sky about Crater Lake
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet - Vandana Shiva text over a photo of an oil rig in the Arctic
"Will it take losing all our islands before the world listens to our stories? Still today slowly the once beautiful island that some of my relatives and family call home is being eaten away day by day by the sea. Cynthia Houniuhi, President Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC)" Quote position on a photo of an exhausted sea turtle hauled out on a beach.
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make." —Jane Goodall quote over an image of Yellowstone National Park with trees and mountaintops just peaking through a pinkish white morning mist.
A Black and White Photograph of the rugged tooth-like mountains, the Tetons, with the river and forest below. Photograph by Ansel Adams, with a quote from him "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. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."
Why do so many branches of the tree of life becomes "crabs"? #Carcinization #ConvergentEvolution #InspirationalIntermission #2025MMM www.npr.org/2024/09/18/1...