We can't thank you enough for the fantastic experience you provided for our group! Our kids were engaged and stimulated on so many levels - spiritually, physically, intellectually, and environmentally. It exceeded our goals as much as it exceeded the kid's expectations for fun. We're already planning our trip for next year!

--Ginny Hunneke
Odyssey Community School

Our nine day trip to Turtle Island was the most powerful and good experience I have ever seen a group of children share. The staff at Turtle Island Preserve are phenomenal people, willing to take on the challenge each child presents. I am ecstatic about the results of this fabulous program.

--Smith Coleman
Discovery Teacher
Orange County, Virginia

My internship far exceeded my expectations.  As soon as I arrived at Turtle Island I was flung into learning situations that todays modern youth only read about. The limits to my learning were barred by nothing at Turtle island.  Within only the first two hours of being around Eustace I was covered in blood from having skinned and gutted my first two deer. The month that followed built on that to create a legendary experience of barn raisin', tree felling, timber milling, blacksmithing, and old fashioned hard work and fun.  The Turtle Island staff are among the most friendly and welcoming people I have ever met. It was a time that marked a turning point in my life and one that I will not soon forget.

After finishing my internship at Turtle island Preserve and coming back into the world, I see everything with a different and much keener eye. It is unbelieveable the waste I overlooked before in my life and just EVERYWHERE! My time at TIP has impacted me greatly. I am excited to apply the principles I learned at the island. You guys are wicked awesome and I miss you heaps!

Simon Woods, BC, Canada

My internship at Turtle Island was absolutely foundational for the strength that I have in my life right now.

Jeremy "Bo" Hewitt
Colorado

On April 25th 2006 Eustace Conway lectured at my college, Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. It was an event like no other. Mr. Conway's Talk was brilliant, eloquent, and impassioned. As president of PSU's Environmental/Social Justice group I was truly pleased that the attendance not only filled the entire auditorium but included many students standing in the open doors of the hallway. It was an absolutely mesmerizing experience, one that still brings tears to my eyes in fond recollection.

The impact that Eustace had on the members of the audience was one that I will never forget. It was the defining moment of my undergraduate career – my own graduation a month later paled in comparison. The audience sat there rapt, enthralled, moved by every story Eustace told; amazed that someone raised with the same comforts as themselves could and would so willfully renounce it all and have no regrets. Though I had heard some of the stories before or read of them in Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man, there were those I was unfamiliar with and I too fast became one of the wide-eyed, enraptured audience members.

Eustace's rapport with the audience was brilliant and spot on, appealing to their every sense. He was friendly and engaging, speaking to them as if they were each close friends. The audience felt that rapport and the genuine feelings he exuded with such confidence and skill. By the lecture's end the audience rose to their feet to give Eustace a long, and much deserve standing ovation. It was thunderous and really beautiful to witness.

--Lydia Perry