The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars every place is the centre of the world. (John Burroughs 1837-1921)

Small local and slow the precious pathway of hope to the future.

A society grows great when old men and women plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek proverb)