Yellowstone National Parks established March 1, 1872
“Yellowstone National Park Act, 1872 – The Act signed into law on March 1, 1872, established the world’s first true national park.”
– National Parks Service website
“The concept of national parks was one of the most popular ideas the United States ever produced. It stemmed from the desire to protect special places for visitors’ present and future enjoyment.”
– National Parks Service website
Read Across America Day – March 2
“Read Across America is an annual celebration of reading that schools all across the country participate in. It’s a chance to inspire more students to become avid readers and host activities that bring your whole community closer together.”
– read-a-thon.com
“To function in a knowledge economy, most organizations need people who read.”
– David Allen
International Women’s Day – March 8
“As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsberg
“I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed, and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
– Isabel Allende
National Procrastination Week Second week in March
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“I’m very busy doing things I don’t need to do in order to avoid doing anything I’m actually supposed to be doing.”
– Anonymous
Anniversary of Death of Anne Frank – March 12, 1945
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
– Anne Frank
Anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System – March 14
“We don’t own the planet Earth; we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
– Steve Irwin
“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Pi Day – March 14
“Too much π gives you a large circumference.”
– Unknown
“Why do you never start talking to Pi at a party? Because it just goes on forever.”
– Pinterest
St. Patrick’s Day – March 17
“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”
– John Millington Synge
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
– Wilson Mizner
Children’s Poetry Day – March 21
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
– Rita Dove
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”
– Alice Walker
Single Parents’ Day – March 21
“Being a single parent is twice the work, twice the stress, and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love, and twice the pride.”
– frolo.com
“Keep calm. They’re almost in bed.”
– Pinterest
Doctors’ Day – March 30
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
– Hippocrates
“The awe of discovering the human body. The honor of being trusted to give advice. The gratitude for helping someone through a difficult illness. These things never grow old.”
– Danielle Ofri, MD
American Red Cross Month
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”
– Anne Lamott
“The two mottoes of the movement – “inter arma caritas” (“In war, charity”) and “per humanitatem ad pacem” (“Through humanity to peace”) – express the ideals of the Red Cross.”
– redcross.org
Music in Our Schools Month
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“20% of kids learn to play music. 70% of adults wish they had.”
– artfacts.com
“You don’t stop playing music because you get old. You get old because you stop playing music.”
– Bonnie Rodgers
Women’s History Month
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
– Elizabeth Edwards
“Vulnerability is not about winning or losing. It’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome.”
– Brené Brown