“Today’s might oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground”
– Anonymous
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world” – John Muir
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious taht if it were made of gold and silver” – Martin Luther
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them” – Bill Vaughn
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”
– Native American Proverb
“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death”
-Tom McMillan
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun” -Ralph Nader
“Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature” – Dennis Gabor
“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations” – David Gerrold
“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition”
– Carl Sagan
“Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow” – Edwin Way Teale
“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world”
– Pam Shaw
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance” – Buddha
“Thank GOD, they cannot cut down the clouds!”
– Henry David Thoreau
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