| Turning Over A New Leaf |
| I decided to create a whole page to display my "Turning Over A New Leaf" art project from February 2001. |
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| Greed. Materialism. Abuse of women, children, and animals. Descrimination. Violence. Poverty. Environmental devastation... ...still widespread in our society. But where there's life, there's hope. As one person, you cannot solve all the world's problems, but you can contribute to positive changes. From the ground, pick a leaf with a saying that represents something important to you. In turn, write on a blank leaf a saying, quote, or statement that describes a change in society you would like to see, or an issue close to your heart, and leave it in place of the one you chose. |
| The project consists of the tree, and of the loose paper leaves. In total there were 936 leaves made. About 200-250 of them are attached to the tree. The rest of the leaves with sayings on them (about 476-526) get scattered around the base of the tree. The remaining leaves are 210 blank ones, on which the viewers can leave behind their own statements. Below are the sayings used: |
| 1. "The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page nothing but their failures.".- Justice Earl Warren 2. "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Unknown 3. "Never underestimate your power to change yourself." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 4. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana 5. "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some forn of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown 6. "The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.". - Celia Green 7. "I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) when asked what he thought of Western civilization. 8. "I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Edward Everet Hale 9. "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein 10. "Live your todays so that you can live with yourself tomorrow." - Unknown 11. "I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become." - Unknown 12. "Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his deathbed, 'Gee, if only I'd spent more time at the office.'" - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 13. "There are many more people trying to meet the right person than trying to become the right person." - Gloria Steinem 14. "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother Teresa 15. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian." - Dennis Wholey 16. "To the world you might be one person; but to one person, you might be the world." - Unknown 17. "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." - Paul Rodgriguez 18. "Those who expect nothing shall never be disappointed." - Uknown 19. "I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Some times you are to learn to forgive yourself." - Uknown 20. "If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another one hundred years." - Socrates 21. "To me, success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways." - Maxine Hong Kingston 22. "After the verb 'to love', 'to help' is the most beautiful verb in the world." - Bertha Von Suttner 23. "We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction." - General Douglas MacArthur 24. "A man who doesn't stand for something will fall for anything." - Peter Marshall 25. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee saying 26. "Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without the freedom to think." - Bergen Evans 27. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." - Ellen DeGeneres 28. "Attitude is Everything." 29. "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." - John LeCarre 30. "Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 31. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." - Will Hazlit 32. "I've learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being." - Unknown 33. "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger." - Unknown 34. "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie 35. "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai Stevenson 36. "About all you can do in life is to be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all." - Unknown |
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