“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.”  Ian McNulty

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” C.S. Lewis in The Magician’s Nephew

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.” Corrie ten Boom

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Frances Hodgson Burnett in The Secret Garden

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”  J.M. Barrie

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” Robertson Davies

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Drawings courtesy of grade eight students: Raelyn, Dana, Calvin, Griffin, Josh and Agnes.