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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.”

“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

“We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.”

“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”

“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.”

“All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

“Forests are the lungs of our land.”

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”