It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
Kennedy, John F.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
We are in trouble now, unless we deliberately take actions to take care of the sea, and make sure these systems continue to operate as they have for millions of years.
Sylvia Earle
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous
Aristotle
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau