"It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it."
- Edward Abbey

Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
- William Blake

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."
- Sarah Brown

"It's not too late at all. You just do not yet know what you are capable of."
- Mahatma Gandhi

The "seven social sins":
Knowledge without character
Science without humanity
Wealth without work
Commerce without morality
Politics without principles
Pleasure without conscience
Worship without self-sacrifice
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always ripe to do right."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Every person must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?"
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"[A] land ethic changes the role of Homo Sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such."
- Aldo Leopold

"There is just one hope for repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche of the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness."
- Robert Marshall

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."
- Roger Miller

"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
- Mark Twain

"The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance."
- T.H. Watkins