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“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”

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Barry Commoner was an esteemed biologist, born on May 28, 1917, and passed away on September 30, 2012. He made significant contributions to environmental science, particularly in the fields of soil pollution and environmental protection. more

“We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.”

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Author:Alice Meynell

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”

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Book:The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.”

Wells Nature Flower Lovers Hated Fairy Tall Stem Splendid Lawns Ivy Daisies Dandelions

Book:The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist

Source: The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist

“Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.”

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Author:Alfred Nobel

“Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.”

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Book:Letters of James Russell Lowell

Source: Letters of James Russell Lowell

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