"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
"It’s not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who… Read more »
"Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about." -Ashleigh Brilliant
"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
