It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
-Benjamin Franklin
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
-Eleanor Roosevelt
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awareness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.
-Eugène Carrière