Vela Creations is an in-depth resource for off grid living. The site documents our research and experiences, hoping that they might help others interested in pursuing this lifestyle. This blog is designed to document our day to day experiences as we build our new, sustainable homestead. If you are interested in seeing more photos and videos, we have a flickr account at the following url: http://flickr.com/photos/35090117@N05/collections/

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Ruth St. Denis

"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds." - Ruth St. Denis

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Johnny Kelly

"Autumn is my favorite season." - Johnny Kelly

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Thomas Jefferson

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." - Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Alphonse Karr

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr

Jean Ingelow

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." - Jean Ingelow

Walter Scott

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn." - Walter Scott

Francis Bacon

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding." - Francis Bacon

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Walter Scott

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn." - Walter Scott

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Francis Bacon

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding." - Francis Bacon

Friday, September 15, 2017

e. e. cummings

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." - e. e. cummings

Monday, September 11, 2017

H. G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Moonlight is sculpture." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Walter Gilbert

"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us." - Walter Gilbert

Friday, September 8, 2017

Edward Young

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars." - Edward Young

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Rabindranath Tagore

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore

Monday, September 4, 2017

William Wordsworth

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." - William Wordsworth

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Walter Hagen

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." - Walter Hagen

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"The Amen of nature is always a flower." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Friday, September 1, 2017

Wallace Stevens

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." - Wallace Stevens

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