We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
The sun shines not on us but in us.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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?
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Forests are the lungs of our land.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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