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Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
Cree Indian Prophecy
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What is man without beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
man would die from great loneliness of spirit,
for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.
All things are connected
Whatever befalls the Earth
befalls the sons of Earth
Chief Seattle of the Suquamish & Duwamish, 1855
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Adventure
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure.
When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornion Wilder
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. [Uncle Vanya, 1897]
Anton Chekhov
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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
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
Audobon
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir
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"Trees give peace to the souls of men."
Nora Waln correspondent 1895-1964
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Choose only one master - Nature.
Rembrandt
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In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.
Baba Dioum
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
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If you poison the environment,the environment will poison you.
Tony Follari
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We kill caterpillars, and yet we wonder why there are no butterflies
aleks
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In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.
John Sawhill, past president of the Nature Conservancy
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Any fool can destroy trees.
John Muir
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We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
Al Gore Jr.
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Morris K. Udall
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