We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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.
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
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.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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