Geoffrey
Platts...
To honor and perpetuate the persona, philosophy, spirit, and
Loves of the Cosmos, Engagement, Friendship, Humor, Land
Preservation, Nature, Literature, and
Writing of this remarkable human being,
Naturalist Geoffrey
Platts remembered - By Curtis
Riggs.,
Sonoran News.
Ceremony held near his bench at Jewel of the Creek.
CAVE CREEK- A group of over 30 environmentalists paid
homage to former local naturalist Geoffrey Platts over
the weekend just a few days before Earth Day. The group,
which included his old friends and the ones whose lives
he shaped with his "green" ways, gathered to remember
Platts and talk about how he made them more aware of
nature and the need to preserve it.
They also heard from...Read
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6th Annual
Geoffrey Platts Celebration...Saturday, April 19, 2008
Our sixth annual
gathering
at the
Jewel of the Creek Preserve in Cave Creek will honor the memory of our
naturalist friend, Geoffrey Platts, and reaffirm the importance of Earth
Day. This year we will have with us Sandy Bahr, well known and effective
Conservation Outreach Director for Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter.
Since this is an
election year, our theme will be "Reach Out and Touch Our Government".
We plan to....More > > > > >information.
NEW
Pictures of this event were just
posted 04-21-08 !!
You can now
purchase (via )Geoffrey Platt's book..
"TREK!
Man
Alone in the Arizona Wild",
directly from our website at this
webpage...
NEW:
With permission, we are posting columns that
Geoffrey wrote for the "Foothills Sentinel," Cave Creek, Arizona.
Our seventh offering -- no date available -- is "Benches say much about
adjustment to the desert." Apropro of his own bench, inaugurated April
2003 near Cave Creek, he penned: "In my hometown of Harrogate,
Yorkshire these “In Memoriam” resting spots are not only everywhere --
but are appreciatively used too. This is a superb idea - especially as
England is a country of avid walkers (of all ages). In the summer of ’96,
wandering through the Yorkshire Dales, my friend and I came across just such
a bench..." See "Pen Points Columns."
- New
Photo of Geoffrey Platts, and caption - 1990
(01-25-03)
QUOTE:
(in Geoffrey's inimical calligraphy) Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months
of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and
recognition in case of success. Sr. Ernest Shackleton's newspaper
advertisement calling for Antarctic exploration, circa 1900.
Trail
Dedicated to Geoffrey
Patagonia Memorial Trail Sign
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GEOFFREY ECO-QUOTE:
Not to have known, as most men have not, either the mountains or the desert,
is not to have known oneself. Joseph Wood Krutch
A Favorite
Geoffrey QUOTE: "The desert has mothered many magical things." John
Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley
QUOTES:
Goodness is
the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau.
Courage is the price that life
exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release
from little things, knows not the livid
loneliness of fear. Amelia Earhart
(from the back of a G-envelope):
Nature's people I know and they know me; I feel for them a transport of
cordiality. Emily Dickinson.
A Geoffrey
eco-quote... THOUGHT: We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news -
painful and bitter to some -- that all living things on Earth are
kindred. Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire
English
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