“The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.” WorldHumansLongActionEarthNatureNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityShareLandBuildingSourceResourcesHarmonyProductiveConservationNatural ResourcesNature Conservation Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.” ShouldMatterLawNatureStudyExpressionCommunicationSourceTravelOceanUnionsStreamsWildernessShoreRaysCrossingsMagneticDealingsAurora Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...” WorldEarthUnderstandingNatureNaturalEnvironmentSourceEnvironmentalCuriosityFulfillmentNatural WorldOur EnvironmentEarth DayNature And EnvironmentEarth And NatureBeautiful EarthWorld Earth DayInspirational EarthUnderstanding Nature Author:David Attenborough
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” WorldSeemsInterestNatureNaturalBeautyEnvironmentSourceIntellectualEnvironmentalExcitementVisualsNatural WorldWorth LivingEarth DayNatural EnvironmentNature And EnvironmentLife Worth LivingEarth And NatureBeautiful EarthWorld Earth Day Author:David Attenborough
“I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.” IfsThinkingMayRealReasonNatureLandSourceEasierSolitudeSpeciesReason WhyWildernessCompassionateRegulationSerenityEstatesLegislationSevereDistractedEnvironmentalismNumbSubversiveEnvironmentalistWildnessDevelopersBacklashEndangered SpeciesFiercenessBlancheEndangered Species Act Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.” IfsBelieveHeartIdeasEndsInspirationI BelieveNatureSourceMy HeartArchitectureInventionBiologyInventingSource Of InspirationMost Inspiring Author:Ken Yeang
“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.” MenWayLastsLawWaterNatureLosesConsciousnessQualitySourceReturnOceanInfiniteSilentDepthSmallestDetachedDrop Of Water Book:The Way of Peace Source: The Way of Peace
“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.” BelieveNatureRealizingCreationSourceHigherOrganizedOrganized Religion Author:Neil Young
“Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.” ThinkingWorldLooksOpportunityDifficultNatureHoursSourceWhere You AreDespiseLureGreat OpportunityDeceptiveCenter Of The World Author:John Burroughs
“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.” IfsWorldShouldYearsChildrenLastsAsksNatureWonderInfluenceSourceBoredomFairyAweArtificialAlienationAntidotePreoccupationSense Of WonderIndestructibleSilent SpringDisenchantmentAwe And WonderWonder Of The WorldWonder Of LifeWonder And MysteryChristening Book:The Sense of Wonder Source: The Sense of Wonder