“The more clearly we can focus on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we will have for its destruction.”
Rachel Carson
“… the possibility of a frugal and protective love for creation… would be… more meaningful and joyful than our present destructive and wasteful economy.”
Wendell Berry
“Wilderness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”
Terry Tempest Williams
“Human activities are now the dominant cause of the observed trends in climate.”
Climate Science Review by 13 U.S. Federal Agencies
November 2017, pg.31
“Hope may be the most important virtue of our time.”
Kathleen Dean Moore
Great Tide Rising
“… the ingenuity with which we continue to reshape our planet is very striking… It reminds me of just how easy it is for us to lose our connection with the natural world.”
Sir David Attenborough
Filmmaker, BBS Series “Planet Earth II”
2016
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not at all supported by all the facts.”
John Muir
“Viewing nature employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it…
reinvigorating the whole system.”
Frederick Law Olmstead, 1895 Report to the California State Congress
“To include nature in our stories is to return to an older form of human awareness, in which nature is…
a continuation of community.”
Barry Lopez
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
Wallace Stegner
“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more
than the miracles of technology.”
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on signing the Wilderness Act of 1964
Rachel Carson
“… the possibility of a frugal and protective love for creation… would be… more meaningful and joyful than our present destructive and wasteful economy.”
Wendell Berry
“Wilderness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”
Terry Tempest Williams
“Human activities are now the dominant cause of the observed trends in climate.”
Climate Science Review by 13 U.S. Federal Agencies
November 2017, pg.31
“Hope may be the most important virtue of our time.”
Kathleen Dean Moore
Great Tide Rising
“… the ingenuity with which we continue to reshape our planet is very striking… It reminds me of just how easy it is for us to lose our connection with the natural world.”
Sir David Attenborough
Filmmaker, BBS Series “Planet Earth II”
2016
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not at all supported by all the facts.”
John Muir
“Viewing nature employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it…
reinvigorating the whole system.”
Frederick Law Olmstead, 1895 Report to the California State Congress
“To include nature in our stories is to return to an older form of human awareness, in which nature is…
a continuation of community.”
Barry Lopez
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
Wallace Stegner
“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more
than the miracles of technology.”
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on signing the Wilderness Act of 1964
