"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
"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
"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
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed, you cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future and the future is ours." -Cesar Chavez
"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
"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others."-Norman G. Shidle
