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ENVIRONMENT: Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Unknown source)
ENVIRONMENT: If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Unknown Source)
ENVIRONMENT: When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (Unknown Source)
ENVIRONMENT: God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)
ENVIRONMENT: When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught, we will discover — too late — that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. (Alanis Obomsawin, Canadian filmmaker, Born 1932)
ENVIRONMENT: The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
ENVIRONMENT: For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. (Rachel Carson, U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)
ENVIRONMENT: Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. (Irv Kupciinet, U.S. newspaper columnist and television talk-show host, 1912-2003)
ENVIRONMENT: The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner, U.S.cellular biologist, college professor, and politician, 1917-2012)
ENVIRONMENT: If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
ENVIRONMENT: When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)
ENVIRONMENT: It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams, U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the western U.S., 1902-1984)
ENVIRONMENT: Western man has no need of more superiority over nature. . . He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. He does not know that his own soul is rebelling against him in a suicidal way. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)