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Photography:

 Camera Obscura at the Cliff House in San Francisco

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;
and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Arts Education and related:

 California Alliance for Arts Education Website

A B O U T - F A C E

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Get local! Santa Cruz local....

 Santa Cruz County, California

 Bay Area Hiker: Home Page

LocalHarvest

"Seeds feed awhile on ground,
then lift up into the sun.
So you should taste the filtered light
and work your way towards wisdom
with no personal covering.
That's how you came here, like a star
without a name."
-Rumi

Be real! Some Green links of goodness....

 Veggies Unite!

 Real Goods

PLANET Organic

"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
-Carl Gustav Jung
Natural Building Gallery

Ecovillage Network of the Americas

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is rapture in the lonely shore,
there is society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
-George Gordon Byron

Intentional Communities Web Site "Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."
-Cecil B. DeMille
International Institute for Ecolgocial Agriculture "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-Joseph Chilton Pearce
Ecovillage Network of the Americas "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
-Albert Einstein
The Green Guide "Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
-Ken Kesey

Music:

 The Mockingbird Foundation

 JamBase | Go See Live Music!

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain
High Sierra Music

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
-- June Masters Bacher

Alternative education: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Waldorf Homeschoolers Home Page "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
Rudolf Steiner College "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Educational Freedom "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
-Henry Havelock Ellis
Thinking out of the box: "The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
IshCon.org - News, Discussion, and Community "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
-Chinese Proverb

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