Educational Tour to the Living with Nature Center (MMSU, UNP, SVIS, PSHS-IS, DepEd Kidapawan, Xavier U-CDO, DLSU-D)

Educational Tour to the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

 "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope.

 Hope breeds peace." – Confucius

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Nursing students from Mariano Marcos State University 

(MSSU) Batac, Ilocos Norte, conduct research and interview on 

Art Appreciation, August 31, 2025.

MMSU Students visit shrine of Dr Jose Rizal in exile at Dapitan, LWNC 

 

Art gallery: Sunset painting against a mural background. 

 Modern art - experimental glass paintings

 

"Save Nature" is the theme of these paintings and driftwood trophy 

 

MMSU coed holds a specimen of a water plant at the Center's Hito pond.

House guests pose with author (center)

2. Tourism students from University of Northern Philippines 

conducts research and interview at LWNC, September 1, 2025

Teachers, researchers, students find the Center a link with the academe, 

a concept of education-extension interrelationship

 

 

 

Talking to a nanny in the garden; tree hugging.

Nature's muses; house guests with author ((right).

3. Teachers and students from San Vicente Integrated School (SVIS) visit to the Living with Nature 

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." Gary Snyder

Tree planting - Arbor Day celebration

Exploring nature on a wall

Library and art gallery 

 

Leaning heritage tree, living counterpart of famed Tower of Pisa.

  

Young artists under the trees and by a make believe waterfall.

Outdoor Children's Art Workshop

 

 

Art and Training Workshop 

Back to school

outdoor, hands-on;

 life afresh and full;

unity of education,

and extension.

 

Ethnic and Nature's Art 

Art lives on, like classic;

test of human spirit,

bridge of generations,

indeed, nature's gift.

 

 Icon of the Resurrection; ancestral  memorabilia

The past lives in icons and memories,

reverence, faith and love;

in treasured images and stories;

 bridge of Earth and Above. ~

4. DepEd Kidapawan Educators and Teachers

Visit the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Welcome our distinguished guests!  Thank you for visiting us. - avr  

 

Guests pose with author's wife Cecille former NFA director (second from right) before a floor-wall-ceiling mural painted by the author.  Right, Basi, the traditional wine of the Ilocos region is still produced in an 18th century cellar, a tourists' attraction of LWNC.

  

Poetry reading with musical background with the house guests.

 

Author and artist (with cap) poses with Sir Miguel P Fillalam Jr CESO 5 Schools Division Superintendent, and DepEd officials and teachers from Kidapawan City during their visit at the Living with Nature Center.  The visitors were guest-participants to the NSPC-NFOT* in Vigan city, adjacent to the Center. 

The 2025 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) and National Festival of Talents (NFOT) are being held in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, from May 19 to 23. This event is hosted by DepEd Region I, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Sur, and the Schools Division of Ilocos Sur. It showcases the brilliance of Filipino learners in journalism, the arts, and other areas. Internet

Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.– Unknown ~

5. Xavier University President, Fr Mars Tan 

visits LWNC 2025

Author (left) presents painting and a book** he wrote for Fr Mars Tan, 

president of Xavier University, on the latter's visit to the author's home 

in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur in 2024. 

A Lovely Pair in a Bower in acrylic (11.5" X 16") by the author

Let the world go by in their bower,

lovers blind to the busy world,

away from the maddening crowd;

fleeting moment is forever,

to this pair in their lair.

Wonder in our midst who we are,

blind to each other, but the world,

strange this crowd we are in;

where's this lovely pair,

where's their bower?

  * A bower for fish is a nest built by fish using their mouths to move sand or other materials. Fish build bowers for spawning.

** Living with Nature in Our Home and Community by AV Rotor, 2023

     Fr. Mars P. Tan, S.J., University President since July 31, 2020, is a member of the Board. As one of six Jesuit colleges and universities in the Philippines, Xavier Ateneo also forms a consortium with the other two Jesuit universities in Mindanao, namely: Ateneo de Davao University and Ateneo de Zamboanga University. (Internet) ~

6. De La Salle University-Dasmariñas Professor Dr. Edwin Tadiosa visits LWNC

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."- Aristotle

Living with tradition, childhood memories, wildlife at the brink of extinction 

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

DLSU-Dasmariñas Professor Dr Edwin Tadiosa (printed white T-shirt) 

and company pose with author (in colored polo).  ~