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“Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.”

“In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.”

“The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.”

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.”

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”

“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”

“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?”

“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.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”

“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.”

“Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!”