| Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on top. ~Edward Abbey We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880 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 ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938 Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. ~Ansel Adams Human existence is a race between intelligence and extinction. ~Thomas Huxley Unless we change the direction we are headed, we might end up where we're going. ~Chinese Proverb I wish to speak a word for Nature... for there are enough champions of civilization. ~Henry David Thoreau We need wild places because they teach us how to surrender to something larger than ourselves, the way we must learn to surrender in love or in our work if we are we to be successful at our lives. ~Pam Houston When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~Jimi Hendrix So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. ~John F. Kennedy The only death you die is the death you die every day by not living. Dream big and dare to fail. ~Norman Vaughan Ecosystems are not only more complex than we think, they are more complex than we can think. ~Frank Egler Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. ~Carol Cristensen Don¹t ever let the opposition portray you as "radical". Preservationist are not radical. We are conservative. "Radicals" are those who do radical things like bulldoze mountains away, strip mine the earth, destroy forests by clearcutting and conversion, pump poison into the air and water. Radicals are responsible for extinction, cancer, and misery -- and the destruction of wilderness. ~Lamar Marshall, Quoted in newsletter of Republicans for Environmental Protection If you want to save the earth, you have to vote for the earth. ~League of Conservation Voters We should all be concerned about the future, because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering |
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