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Lots of Big News!

Adult Class Enrollment Now OpenSend your choices by July 3 for the best chance of getting your choices

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NWF Establishes Volunteer Education Fund in Craig Tufts' Name

Craig Tufts passed away peacefully on June 21st.

Craig Tufts is a faculty member who made Summits so special. Please visit the online guestbook for information on the Volunteer Education Fund established in Craig's name.

There is also a special project underway to collect photos of Craig for a slideshow - do you have photos?

Photo of the sign at the Silver Bay YMCA

Take a Virtual Tour of Silver Bay YMCA

Check out these photos and stories from Summiteer Carla Brown, who visited Silver Bay YMCA last October.

Get the inside scoop on the beautiful and fun-filled location on the shores of Lake George. Get excited about summer 2009!

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Volunteer at the 2009 Summit

Find out how you can make friends and be a part of this special event by volunteering at the 2009 Summit.

You can also volunteer at the green lifestyles evening on Monday July 27.

Earn University Credit at the 2009 Summit

Harrison Middleton University of Tempe Arizona will now offer that opportunity.

This is being organized by Summiteer Leslie Krebs at lak1230@yahoo.com.

Harrison Middleton University registration form

Book Cover of The Reserve by Russell Banks

2009 Summit Book Club

Check out the three books that Summiteers across the country have on their night table.

Get reading today!

What are Family Nature Summits?

Family Nature Summits provide a fun and stimulating outdoor-oriented vacation, offering participants the opportunity to enjoy and learn about nature and the environment.

Summits offer a broad variety of activities and programs that appeal to singles, couples and families of all ages.

Learn more about Family Nature Summits


 2009 Summit Flyer

Print a flyer to share with friends and family. Post it at your community center, your children's schools and your religious gathering place.

 

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Notable Nature Quotes

  “Good friends are good for your health”
-- Irwin Sarason, New York Times, 1985

 “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
-- Aldo Leopold, A and Country Almanac (1941)

 “What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it”
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer, NY Times Magazine, 1978

 “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”
-- John Muir, The Yosemite, 1912

 “We are rooted to the air through our lungs and to the soil through our stomachs. We are walking trees and floating plants.
-- John Burroughs, The Grist of the Gods, 1908

 “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
-- Marcel Proust

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
--John Muir, The Yosemite,1912

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it"
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, NY Times Magazine, 1978

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are"
--Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Opens Spaces, 1985

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they live than other things do"
--Willa Cather, Pioneers!, 1913

"What is learned depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences"
--Edgar Friedenberg, The Dignity of Youth, 1965

I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
'Twixt Nature's heart and mine
--George Linnaeus Banks, What I Live For, 1862

"Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds"
--Brooks Atkinson, once Around the Sun 1951

"May you be blessed with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do things that others say cannot be done."
--Excerpt from a Franciscan Prayer

"Never while anything is left of me shall this first camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike. The deep hopper-like hollow, with its majestic trees through which all the wonderful nights the stars poured their beauty."
--John Muir,  My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)

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