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Welcome to my personal pages, which are
not quite a blog but tend in that direction. If you want to see my curriculum vitae and professional interests, What's new? Vernier (my community and its parks) |
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PERSONAL PAGES OF
ARTHUR LYON DAHL
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Welcome to my personal pages, which are
not quite a blog but tend in that direction. If you want to see my curriculum vitae and professional interests, What's new? Vernier (my community and its parks) |
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PERSONAL INTERESTS The following are some of the subjects in which I am personally interested, apart from my work on such things as islands, coral reefs, and indicators of sustainable development which can be found on my professional pages. There is no easy way to describe the influence the Bahá'í Faith has had on my life, since the principles, values and vision of this new world religion have been determinant in everything I have done or tried to do. From the beginning, they set me on a path of service to humanity. For information on my Bahá'í activities see my Bahá'í curriculum vitae. Since I am frequently invited by Bahá'í communities to give lectures, I have included a page of some of my Topics for talks, apart from those in my professional fields. This Bahá'í-inspired organization, which I helped to found, combines my professional and personal interests, as it bridges the worlds of science and religion, and tries to be of service to the world by applying spiritual principles to the practical problems of the environment and sustainable development. Many of my papers on these topics can be found on this site. It also has an e-learning centre on sustainability. I cannot encourage others to be sustainable without practicing it myself. This page describes some of my personal thinking about my own efforts for a sustainable lifestyle. Now that my children are off and married, my family is taking on new dimensions. This page covers four generations: my parents, my brothers, my wife and children, and my grandchildren. I shall try to add an album of past photos when time permits. These pictures from infancy to the present, originally collected to illustrate a magazine article, are some bits and pieces of a kind of photo biography, until the day when I can begin to write down my own stories as people often ask me to. 
My main hobby and recreation has always been rebuilding and landscaping old houses. Working with
my hands, or digging in the garden, are an essential break from intellectual
work and the office routine of an international civil servant. I no longer
need a big house for a family, so now I spend part of my time at my little
chalet in the forest in France. These pages show the natural beauties
of my forest in different seasons and some of my activities there.
As a resident of Switzerland, I spend the majority of my time in Geneva, living in a tiny apartment in the municipality of Vernier. It has some amazing parks and gardens for an urban community. I am a member of the Bahá'í community of Vernier. I have lived in (and helped to create) some beautiful places in my life. Here are pictures of some of them. Since I spend about a third of my time traveling, it is more than a hobby. Between professional trips (that continue even though I am formally retired), travel for the Bahá'í Faith, and visits to family, I have managed to travel to more than 80 countries. The pages here describe some of my recent trips, with occasional photographs.  Art and beauty are a much a part of my life as science and religion. Among the artists whose work I admire, Mark Tobey has a special place. Here you will see why.
Starting as a teenager, photography has been for me a scientific tool, a way of recording places, events and people, and an art form, which is featured here. |
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