What A Country Chooses To Save

What a country chooses to save
is what a country chooses to say about itself.
~ Mollie Beattie

 

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Conservation Is An Act Of Democracy

 Conservation is an act of democracy, the greatest good
for the greatest numbers for the longest time.
Surely the protection of these natural treasures is
fundamental to 'homeland security'.
~ Terry Tempest Williams

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Wilderness Crops - Spiritual Values

 Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive:
little can be grown in its sand and rock.
But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values,
silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude,
able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
~David Douglas

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Culture Reflects The Rich Diversity Of Wilderness

 Wilderness is the raw material out of which humans
have hammered the artifact called civilization;
the rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects
a corresponding diversity on the wilds that gave them birth.
~ Aldo Leopold

Title: Culture Reflects The Rich Diversity Of Wilderness
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Account For Wild Things

 The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please.
They have been given to us in trust and we must account for them
to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.
~ William T Hornaday

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Sing Wilderness Love Songs

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Giving Liberty To Others

 Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless
you are willing to give it to others.
~ William Allen White

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Focus Clearly On The Wonders

 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders
and realities of the universe about us,
the less taste we shall have for destruction
~ Rachel Carson

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The Wild Things Of This Earth

 The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please.
They have been given to us in trust and we must account for them
to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.
~ William T Hornaday

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Alliance With Nature Is A Cornerstone Of Our True Humanity

 When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily
like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves
in thought outside of Nature of which we are inescapably a part.

Be it storm and flood, hail and fire or the yielding furrow and
the fruitful plain, and alliance it is and that alliance is
a cornerstone of our true humanity.
~ Henry Beston, Northern Farm

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Things That Matter

Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent
about the things that matter.
 ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Defend And Preserve It

 It is not enough to understand the natural world,
the point is to defend and preserve it.
 ~ Edward Abbey

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Rich In Proportion

 One is rich in proportion
to the number of things which
one can afford to let alone.
 ~ Henry David Thoreau

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Experience The Beautiful Mysterious

 The most beautiful thing
we can experience
is the mysterious.
~ Albert Einstein

Title: Experience The Beautiful Mysterious
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Beauty As Well As Bread

 Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and places to pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer and give strength
to body and soul.
~ John Muir from "The Yosemite" (1912)

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Scientists Have Discovered

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating
with another person makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

' New York Times, July 23, 2002

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A Green Bough In Your Heart

 If you keep a green bough in your heart
surely the singing bird will come.
~ A Chinese saying
quoted in The Web in the Sea by Alice O. Howell

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Kill The Forest, Kill The Future

 "When we kill the forest, we kill the past;
kill enough of the past, and we will have no future.
In these forests abide ancient lives: ours."
~ T. H. Watkins

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Beauty As Well As Bread

 Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and
places to pray in,
where nature may
heal and cheer and give strength
to body and soul.
~ John Muir from "The Yosemite" (1912)

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Lessons From The Wild

 The lessons we learn from the wild
become the etiquette of freedom.
~ Gary Snyder

Title: Lessons From The Wild
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