"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." -Wallace Stegner
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses." -Abraham Lincoln
"There is more to be learned in one day of discomfort, poverty, and anxiety than in a lifetime of apparent happiness, security, riches, and power." -Ralph Stanton
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." -John Muir, 1875
"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." -Theodore Roosevelt, 1900
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"The packaging for a microwavable ‘microwave’ dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries." -David Wann, Buzzworm, November, 1990
For this journal discussion I’d like you to think about what you are learning from our Action Project. We’ve spent the last week working hard on researching the New Zealand Mud Snail issue, contacting expert members of the community, locating and ordering products for our educational campaign, and collaborating with one another in order to… Read more »
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed." -Mohandas K. Ghandi
