JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU 1910–1997 WATER AND AIR, THE TWO ESSENTIAL FLUIDS WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS, HAVE BECOME GLOBAL GARBAGE CANS. FARMING AS WE DO IT IS HUNTING, AND IN THE SEA WE ACT LIKE BARBARIANS. MANKIND HAS PROBABLY DONE MORE DAMAGE TO THE EARTH IN THE 20TH … Read more

From Michael Moore: (excerpts) AN INCREDIBLE AND HISTORIC MOMENT TOOK PLACE 60 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 10, 1963.           PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ASKED TO GIVE A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.  HAPPENING JUST FIVE MONTHS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION, HE BRAVELY CALLED FOR AN END TO WAR, … Read more

                       BIRTHDAYS TODAY JUNE 10 E.O.WILSON  scientist  1929–  “The Ants” “Biophilla” “Half-Earth” IF ALL MANKIND WERE TO DISAPPEAR, THE WORLD WOULD REGENERATE BACK TO THE RICH STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM THAT EXISTED TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO. IF INSECTS WERE TO VANISH, THE ENVIRONMENT WOULD COLLAPSE INTO … Read more

1999 Ohso International Foundation. St. Martin’s Press “IF enough Americans were to read the brilliantly provocative words in this book, we might actually become ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ Imagine that!” Tom Robbins, author of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” I love books. I have found treasures in used … Read more

TODAYS BIRTHDAYS  PIERRE CORNEILLE DRAMATIST 1696-1684 “Le Cid” “L’illusion Comique” TO WIN WITHOUT RISK IS TO TRIUMPH WITHOUT GLORY. LOVE IS A TYRANT SPARING NONE. WE NEVER TASTE HAPPINESS IN PERFECTION, OUR MOST FORTUNATE SUCCESSES ARE MIXED WITH SADNESS. TRUE, I AM YOUNG, BUT SOULS NOBLY BORN VALOR DOESN’T  AWAIT THE PASSING OF YEARS. THE … Read more

BIRTHDAY JUNE 5 BILL MOYERS  JOURNALIST 1934 I’LL BELIEVE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE WHEN TEXAS EXECUTES ONE. HOW DO WE PROTECT THE SOUL OF DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE BAD  THEOLOGY IN SERVICE OF AN IMPERIAL STATE? OUR MEDIA AND POLITICAL SYSTEM HAS TURNED INTO A MUTUAL PROTECTION RACKET. AN UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE, AN INDOCTRINATED PEOPLE, A PEOPLE FED … Read more

BIRTHDAYS JUNE 4 ROBERT FULGHUM  AUTHOR. 1937— THE EXAMINED LIFE IS NO PICNIC. SOLITUDE IS NO THE SAME AS LONELINESS. SOLITUDE IS A BOAT FLOATING IN A SEA OF POSSIBLE COMPANIONS. ALL I NEED TO KNOW . . . I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN. STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK OUR BONES, BUT WORDS WILL BREAK OUR … Read more

BIRTHDAYS JUNE 3 ALAN GINSBERG FOLLOW YOUR INNER MOONLIGHT; DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS. POETRY IS THE ONE PLACE PEOPLE CAN SPEAK THEIR ORIGINAL HUMAN MIND. IT IS THE OUTLET FOR PEOPLE TO SAY IN PUBLIC WHAT IS KNOWN IN PRIVATE. POETS ARE DAMNED . . . BUT SEE WITH THE EYES OF ANGELS. THE WEIGHT … Read more

BIRTHDAYS TODAY April 2 MARQUIS de SADE 1740-1814 YOUR BODY IS THE CHURCH WHERE NATURE ASKS TO BE REVERENCED. I’VE ALWAYS TOLD YOU: THE ONLY WAY TO A WOMAN’S HEART IS ALONG THE PATH OF TORMENT. HAPPINESS IS IDEAL, IT IS THE WORK OF THE IMAGINATION. THE IMAGINATION IS THE SPUR OF DELIGHTS . . … Read more

             And what is so rare as a day in June!                           Then, if ever, come perfect days;              Then, if ever, come perfect days;                    And over it softly her warm ear lays;              Whether we look, or whether we listen,                   WE hear life murmur, or see it glisten;                    Every clod feels a stir of might.              An instinct within … Read more