“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Gandhi

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…” John Muir, naturalist

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”  John Muir

“What you take from the earth, you must give back. That’s nature’s way.” Chris d’Lacey in The Fire Within

“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.”  Marshall McLuhan, philosopher

“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and philosopher

“Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” Thomas Alva Edison, inventor

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree proverb

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”  E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web

“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” Max Ehrman, poet

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