We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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.
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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?
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
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