When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
Forests are the lungs of our land.
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, _x000D_ For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. _x000D_ America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, _x000D_ And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.
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.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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