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.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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