Destinations

  “If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart; art and it would be Michelangelo; literature and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something greater: the only place on earth that is still as it should be.”   - Andrew Denton 

 “How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?”  - Henry Gates 

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you"                - Lao Tzu 

 “History is not just about dates and quotations…It’s about everything. It’s about life history. It’s human…We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It’s about art, music, literature, money, science, love – the human experience.”  – David McCullough  

 “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”  – Rachel Carson  

 “I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me!” - Dorothea Mackellar