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/

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Aesop

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." - Aesop

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Norman Douglas

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas

Monday, November 27, 2017

Elizabeth Bowen

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." - Elizabeth Bowen

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Richard Jefferies

"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness." - Richard Jefferies

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Kin Hubbard

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower." - Kin Hubbard

Friday, November 24, 2017

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thursday, November 23, 2017

B. C. Forbes

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." - B. C. Forbes

Monday, November 20, 2017

Alexander Pope

"All nature is but art unknown to thee." - Alexander Pope

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Anne Bronte

"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine." - Anne Bronte

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Lord Byron

"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!" - Lord Byron

Friday, November 17, 2017

Judy Garland

"Behind every cloud is another cloud." - Judy Garland

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Thomas Hood

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence." - Thomas Hood

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Monday, November 13, 2017

Hippocrates

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature." - Hippocrates

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Sally Ride

"The view of Earth is spectacular." - Sally Ride

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Robert Smithson

"Nature is never finished." - Robert Smithson

Friday, November 10, 2017

David Icke

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground." - David Icke

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Ellsworth Huntington

"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton." - Ellsworth Huntington

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Henry Fielding

"All nature wears one universal grin." - Henry Fielding

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Edward Young

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth." - Edward Young

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Bette Davis

"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars." - Bette Davis

Friday, November 3, 2017

Vladimir Nabokov

"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea." - Vladimir Nabokov

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Aristotle

"Nature does nothing in vain." - Aristotle

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Saint Teresa of Avila

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit." - Saint Teresa of Avila

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