“Make it a Beautiful Life”

The quote “Make it a Beautiful Life” is credited as Nat Young’s, 1966 World Surfing Champion, personal mission statement.  With a change of one word, it is close to mine, “Make it a Beautiful Forest”.  Beauty is subjective, and hard to define when it comes to people or the natural environment. Change is constant. When it comes to a forest, like life, beauty has to be more than appearance there are connections, and growth and a synergy, apparent or felt.  A beautiful forest is probably something different to everyone and everything that looks at, lives in or is part of.

Other thoughts credited to Nat Young:

Give respect to gain respect. Whether it's towards a wave, a woman, or someone of a different race, you have to be respectful. This is even more important now, as there are more people surfing and more people on the planet.

When it comes to the environment, we should all tread lightly. It's frightening that money can rule over what's being done to the environment. It's important that we all have jobs, but where is that going to lead us if we trash the planet? Everything in nature is connected, so we need to be careful.