1. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  
  2. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

             Margaret Mead, anthropologist,  1978 Planetary Citizen of the Year                      

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  • Trees by Joyce Kilmer *
  • I think that I shall never see
  • A poem lovely as a tree.
  • A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
  • Against the earth's free flowing breast;
  • A tree that looks to God all day,
  • And lifts her leafy limbs to pray;
  • A tree that may in summer wear
  • A nest of robins in her in her hair; 
  • Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 
  • Who sways in sync with wind and rain,
  • Poems are made by fools like me,
  • But only God can make a tree.

                                            *  I took some liberties with the original.

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  • Whether the weather be fine
  • Or whether the weather be not,
  • Whether the weather be cold 
  • or whether the weather be hot,
  • We'll weather the weather
  • whatever the weather
  • Whether we like it or not.
  • Together!

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