When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.
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.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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