Ondrej Ko

“Recognizing that forest ecosystems, like societies, have these elements of intelligence helps us leave behind old notions that they are inert, simple, linear, and predictable. Notions that have helped fuel the justification for rapid exploitation that has risked the future existence of creatures in the forest systems.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

“Plants are attuned to one another’s strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. A balance that can also be achieved in the simple beauty of a garden. In the complex society of ants. There’s grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals. We can find this in ourselves, in what we do alone, but also in what we enact together. Our own roots and systems interlace and tangle, grow into and away from one another and back again in a million subtle moments.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

“I strongly believe in the potential of all of us to learn and develop as individuals and that throughout our lives we should never stop learning, as we now understand that life-long learning actually shapes our brains. The important factor now is to enhance THE WAY we learn. As we connect more and more our understanding of the brain with how we as human beings learn, live and cohabit with each other, there is the hope that we will be able to understand how to shift forward into a new educational era: an educational era where learners are encouraged and supported at any age of their lives; where individuals are empowered and encouraged to be individualistic and to understand that everybody is different; where humans are able to apply lessons learnt to really support each other and to really live the vision of a harmonious, plentiful, peaceful life for all.”
― Rachel Paling, Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain friendly language learning

“All in all, I loved Bratislava, and was determined to stay if I could. The city had a vibrancy to it that I’d not experienced elsewhere; a strong sense of its history combined with a passionate determination to free itself of any remaining shackles of the past and forge a new identity. I felt an affinity in that.”
― Christy Morgan, With Love From Bratislava