The wilderness of the Sierra will
disappear unless little pieces of nonwilderness become intensely
loved by lots of people In other words, Harlem and Saint Louis
and Iowa and Kansas and the rest of the world where wilderness
has been destroyed must come to be loved by enough of us, or
wilderness too is doomed.
- Wes Jackson, Becoming
Native to This Place
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out
till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
- John
Muir
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let
remaining wilderness be destroyed ... if we pollute the last
clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved
roads through the last of the silence.
- Wallace
Stegner
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American,
absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than
our worst.
- Wallace
Stegner
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry
David Thoreau
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We
need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.
- Edward
Abbey
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
- Joni
Mitchell
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
- Gary
Snyder
Though scientists have named 1.7 million species, at least
3.3 million others are still out there, as yet unidentified.
- Elin Kelsey, Strange New Species: Astonishing Discoveries
of Life on Planet Earth
The late E.F.
Schumacher believed that there are two places to find wisdom:
in nature and in religious traditions. To seek wisdom in nature
we should obviously go to those who have loved nature enough
to study it. Because science explores nature it can be a powerful
source of wisdom. In just about every culture imaginable, religion
and science were teammates who offered to the people a cosmic
myth that allowed them to live out their lives with meaning.
- Matthew
Fox, Original
Blessing
Nature is a language - can't you read?
- The Smiths, Ask
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