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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ~Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe. ~William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man, 1974
You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers…a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution"
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.” ~William Langewiesche
The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
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
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown
I think the
environment should be put in the category of our national security.
Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise
what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford,
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. ~ Gérard de Nerval
A flower is an educated weed. ~ Luther Burbank
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams
To expand your consciousness, concentrate on the distances of your environment. ~J. Donald Waters
The real voyage in discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
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
And how
should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release
- out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its
lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton
blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? ~Carl
Sandburg, Good Morning
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~Longfellow
Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling?' ~unknown
Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ~Helen Keller
When we tug on a single thing in nature we find it attached to everything else. ~John Muir
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress, can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~M. Gandhi
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. ~Edward Abbey
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ~Bradley Millar
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein