Carnival of Animals

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France

A horse is worth more than riches. – Spanish Proverb

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. – Alexander Pope

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful:

The Lord God made them all.

-Cecil Frances, 1848

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. – Franz Kafka, Investigations of the Dog

Children of Spiti

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man - Rabindranath Tagore

Read to Know the World

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

Spiti Valley (Little Tibet)

I’d like to go anywhere. – John Steinbeck

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. – Susan Magsamen

… a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton

The Place We Call Home

Home is the nicest word there is. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, 

singing to all our after life melodies and

harmonies of old remembered joy.

– Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home

It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be

How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury

It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,

Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.

– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

Nor need we power or splendor,

wide hall or lordly dome;

the good, the true, the tender-

these form the wealth of home.

– Sarah J. Hale

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

– Helen Rowland

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

they have to take you in.

– Robert Frost