If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
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“Imagine a treatment that would improve your mood, make you smarter, keep you healthier and improve your relationships. How much would you invest in that therapy? Turns out, there is such a thing and best of all, it’s free. It’s called Nature.”
~Dr. Lawrence Rosen
~Dr. Lawrence Rosen
"May the relationship between man and nature not be driven by greed, to manipulate and exploit, but may the divine harmony between beings and creation be conserved in the logic of respect and care.”
Pope Francis, Vatican City, April 22, 2015
Pope Francis, Vatican City, April 22, 2015
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it"
~Robert Swan
~Robert Swan
"Those who dwell
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of
life."
~Rachel Carson
~Rachel Carson
"You will find
something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you
that which you can never learn from masters."
~St. Bernard
~St. Bernard
"I go to nature
to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
~John Burroughs
~John Burroughs
"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other
creatures do."
~Barbara Ward
creatures do."
~Barbara Ward
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."
~John Ruskin
~John Ruskin
"Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health."
~William L. Rathje
~William L. Rathje
"An environment-based education
movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school
isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider
world."
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"The
Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating."
~William H. Stewart
~William H. Stewart
"For
many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it
beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild
river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life
that water supports."
~Sandra Postel
~Sandra Postel
"A
Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy"
~Claudine Schneider
~Claudine Schneider
"It is a curious situation that the sea,
from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one
form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue
to exist; the threat is rather to life itself."
~ Rachel Carson
~ Rachel Carson
“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.”
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"The
Wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the
human spirit."
~Joseph Wood Krutch
~Joseph Wood Krutch
"To
halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an
ecosystem."
~Douglas P. Wheeler
~Douglas P. Wheeler
"Earth
provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The
ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something
today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."
~Gaylord Nelson
~Gaylord Nelson
"Progress does not have to be
patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions
with nature and its preservation. Can we teach children to look at a flower and
see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the
potential for healing? "
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"It
is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the
global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the
environment in which we all live."
~Dalai Lama
~Dalai Lama
"The more clearly we can
focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less
taste we shall have for destruction."
~Rachel Carson
~Rachel Carson
"Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of natures varied forms."
~George Washington Carver
~George Washington Carver
"For in the true nature of
things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if
it were made of gold and silver."
~Martin Luther
~Martin Luther
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"Those who contemplate the
beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life
lasts."
~ Rachel Carson
~ Rachel Carson
"As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit."
~T.H. Watkins
~T.H. Watkins
"Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making."
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a
natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the
importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered
species, or how human communities must base their economic futures – not on
short-term exploitation – but on long-term, sustainable development."
~Gaylord Nelson
~Gaylord Nelson
"I recognize the
right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but
I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the
generations that come after us."
~Theodore Roosevelt
~Theodore Roosevelt
"So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb
may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century."
~Philip Shabecoff
~Philip Shabecoff
"The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or
technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each
other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right."
~Donella Meadow
~Donella Meadow
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our
mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
~Rachel Carson
~Rachel Carson
"We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every
other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to
exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to
do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy."
~Wallace Stegner
~Wallace Stegner
"We do need a 'new
economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving,
not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and
hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a
peaceable economy."
~Wendell Berry
"God bless America. Let's
save some of it."
~Edward Abbey
~Edward Abbey
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
~Ansel Adams
~Ansel Adams
"Research suggests that exposure to the natural world – including nearby nature in cities – helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand."
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"A true conservationist is a
man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his
children."
~Audubon
~Audubon
"What a country chooses to save is what a
country chooses to say about itself."
~Mollie Beattie
~Mollie Beattie
"To cherish what remains of
the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
~Wendell Berry
~Wendell Berry
"The most unhappy thing about conservation is
that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable
mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter."
~Hal Borland
~Hal Borland
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense
of wonder, he needs the companionship of a least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live
in."
~Rachel Carson
~Rachel Carson
"In the end, we conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are
taught."
~Baba Dioum
~Baba Dioum
"Till now man has been up
against nature, from now on he will be up against his own nature."
~Dennis Gabor
~Dennis Gabor
"It is our task in our time
and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as
was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty
which is ours."
~John F. Kennedy
~John F. Kennedy
"Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy."
~Richard Louv
~Richard Louv
"The clearest way into the universe is
through a forest wilderness."
~John Muir
~John Muir
"In the long term, the
economy and the environment are the same thing. If it's unenvironmental it is
uneconomical. That is the rule of nature."
~Mollie Beattie
~Mollie Beattie
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the
kind of world that it leaves to its children."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based
on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather
than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation
to pass this inheritance on to the future."
~Charles A. Lindbergh
~Charles A. Lindbergh
"Sustainable development is...development
that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of further
generations to meet their own needs."
~World Commission on Environment and Development
~World Commission on Environment and Development
"If future generations are
to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them
something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of
the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with
it."
~President Lyndon B. Johnson
~President Lyndon B. Johnson
"Wilderness itself is
the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life
to concede to wilderness the right to live on?"
~Margaret (Mardy) Murie
~Margaret (Mardy) Murie
"There is just one hope for
repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche of the
whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight
for the freedom of the wilderness."
~Robert Marshall
~Robert Marshall
"Everybody needs beauty as
well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give
strength to body and soul."
~John Muir
~John Muir
"It is imperative to maintain
portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a
waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan
may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their
ancestors knew in their nerves and blood."
~Bernard De Voto
~Bernard De Voto
"If you know wilderness in the way that you
know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our
past and it will be the story of our future."
~Terry Tempest Williams
~Terry Tempest Williams
"For if one link in nature's
chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will
vanish by piecemeal."
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
"There is nothing in which
the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet
leave a landscape as it was before."
~Robert Lynd
~Robert Lynd
"Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of
products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our
welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may
conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be
saving our own."
~Norman Myers
~Norman Myers
"The value of biodiversity is more than the
sum of its parts."
~Byran G. Norton
~Byran G. Norton
"Without habitat, there is no wildlife. It's that simple."
~Wildlife Habitat Canada
~Wildlife Habitat Canada
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to
stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
~John Muir
~John Muir
