Yellowstone National Park established March 1, 1872
“There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than… the Canyon of the Yellowstone… and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 1905
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
– Edward Abbey
Read Across America Day – March 2
“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
International Women’s Day – March 8
“Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.”
– Serena Williams
“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
– G.D. Anderson
“She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking.”
– Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
National Procrastination Week, second week in March
We’ll talk about that tomorrow!
Anniversary of the death of Anne Frank – March 12, 1945
Quotes from Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. No one has ever become poor by giving. I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Uranus discovered – March 13, 1781
“When Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, was discovered in 1781, it expanded the known limits of our solar system. It was also the first planet to be discovered using a telescope, as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all bright enough to be easily visible to the naked eye.”
– sciencemuseum.org.uk
“Uranus was discovered by William Herschel, an astronomer and musician. The seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest planet in our solar system – Uranus is about four times wider than Earth. Uranus is very cold and windy. It is surrounded by faint rings, and more than two dozen small moons.
“Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane. The methane makes Uranus blue.”
– science.nasa.gov
National Clean Out Your Closet Week – March 17-24
“I’m going to start Spring cleaning today. And by Spring cleaning, I mean spraying everything with Febreze.”
– Unknown
“Excuse the mess, but we live here.”
– Roseanne Barr
“Normal person’s weekly chore list: clean kitchen, clean bathroom, clean rest of domicile. Cleaning impaired person’s weekly chore list: Don’t get peanut butter on the sheets.”
– Dave Barry
St. Patrick’s Day – March 17
“For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”
– Jennifer Armstrong
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met yet.”
– William Butler Yeats
First Space Walk – March 18, 1965
“When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
– Alan Shepard
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.”
– Wernher von Braun
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.”
– Anonymous
“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”
– Erma Bombeck
Music in Our Schools Month
“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
– Plato
“…there is little doubt that regular exposure to music, and especially active participation in music, may stimulate development of many different areas of the brain….In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.”
– Oliver Sacks, Neurologist
National Woman’s History Month
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society because that talent wears a skirt.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg