Posts By: Ford Church

“Now we see that we have to pay attention to the environment. We have to protect it. It’s become a real issue and a lot of people are still looking at it from a 20th century standpoint.” – Herbie Hancock

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself… Read more »

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense: only more defenders." -Edward Abbey

"Now I see the secret of making the best persons.  It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."-Walt Whitman

"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks."-Gregory Bateson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.  There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.  To map out a course of action and to follow it to an end requires courage." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her serenity."-E.B. White

"The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space."-Edward Abbey

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls… Read more »