Find a special place, love it, protect it, refuse to let it go. Choose your mountain, your desert, your marshland, your place of power, and stand by it because even as one piece of land is protected, the whole planet rejoices. —Lou Gold
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. —Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. —Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes. —Joan Baez
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing a bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. —John Rushkin
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, But rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man. —Sun Bear
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. —Henry David Thoreau
Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education. —David Polis
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. —George Meredith
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life. —John Burroughs
A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy. —Rumer Godden
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. —Muir
If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty, and to wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter. —Joe Miller
The Amazon is still burning; we just don’t hear the smoke detectors anymore. —Larry Gelbart
Humanity is the cancer of nature.
— Dave Foreman, Founder of Earth First!
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” —Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
The sun is but a morning star. — Henry David Thoreau
Look deep into nature and you will find the answer to everything. —Albert Einstein
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. —Calvin and Hobbes
Life is such a very personal thing wrapped up within the being of every living creature, that it is sometimes hard to realize how intimately each life is connected with a great many other lives. Life is a flowing stream, forever passing away and as constantly being renewed. The energy that brings us life is supplied from many different sources, most of them beyond our vision of experience. The principles which govern all these interrelationships are called the principles of ecology—the science which deals with the mutual relations between living organisms and their environment. The subject of ecology is so vast and complex that no human mind has ever fathomed all its secrets. Many of them can probably never be unraveled, but the basic principles of ecology are known, and on the functioning of these known principles depends the future of all life.Can the human intellect deceive the evolution of life? Life is subject to automatic controls. Man has partially escaped these controls of nature. He has achieved almost unlimited power to multiply his numbers and at the same time destroy the world’s resources that might support him. Under the domination of his intellect, the world’s life, and the environment of that life, seem to have reached a crossroads, and the choice of direction is to be made now. —The Web of Life
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