The 610-kilometre Skeena River is one of the world’s longest undammed rivers, and is the second longest river in British Columbia. Unlike the Fraser, the Skeena has been spared widespread industrial development, and a large portion of the Skeena w…
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Smoke on the water…
Mcleese Lake somewhere in the smokeThere’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert OrbenAnd there is smoke in the air…man it is everywhere! With the home fires still a burning up t…
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“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer
there is fir…
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The problem with communication …is the illusion that it has been accomplished. George Bernard ShawIt seems that in order to live in this world communication has become one of the most important things. We get bombarded with information…and it see…
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“Courage is resistance to fear,mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”– Mark Twain It seems that our lives are continually in a state of trying to balance our hopes and our fears. And for many it seems that the fear over…
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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Madela So been working on the living one day at a time and because of that great advice…last Saturday I thought that…
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Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.Wood AllenA string of words can be powerful. The amount of words can be many or little but it doesn’t matter if there are many or a few…the message they contai…
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”Galileo Galilei You know sometimes I just have to stop and think and think hard because sometimes it seems quite unbelievable what is going on…Oh the Fif…
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“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome”Willams JamesIt seems we are constantly having to make decisions. Now some are little and of not much consequ…
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You Either Die a Hero, or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become the Villain Batman: Dark Knight
It seems that you don’t have to do too much of anything to aggravate someone. In fact it is as easy as just living your life…
And isn’t that ju…
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“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai E. Stevenson quotes (American Politician. Governor of Illinois (1949-53)
and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-65). 1900-1965)
It took about a w…