"And forget not.., that the earth delights to feel your bare feet,,,,
.... and the winds long to play with your hair."

---- Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer)

"Remember..., you belong to Nature.....,
...not it, to you."

---- Archibald Belaney (aka: Grey Owl)

"Human beings, as a whole, deny to animals any credit for the power of thought, preferring not to hear about it and ascribing everything they do to instinct. Yet most species of animals can reason, and all men have instinct.

Man is the highest of living creatures, but it does not follow a corollary that Nature belongs to him, as he so fondly imagines. He belongs to it. That he should take his share of the gifts she has so bountifully provided for her children, is only right and proper; but he cannot reasonably deny the other creatures a certain portion. They have to live too."

---- Grey Owl

"I have learned a lot from trees;
Sometimes about the weather,
Sometimes about animals,
Sometimes about the Great Spirits."

---- Tatanga Mani "��Walking Buffalo"��
(Chief of the Nakoda, medicine man, naturalist, and peace advocate)

"All living creatures and all plants.... are a benefit to something."

---- Okute (Sioux)

"I am trying to save the knowledge that the forests and this planet are alive,
.....to give it back to you.., who have lost the understanding."

---- Paulinho Paiakan (Kayapo Indian Chief)

"The thoughts of the earth are my thoughts.
The voice of the earth is my voice.
All that belongs to the earth belongs to me.
All that surrounds the earth surrounds me.
It is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed."

---- Navajo

"With the beauty before me,
May I walk
With beauty behind me,
May I walk
With beauty above me,
May I walk
With beauty below me,
May I walk
With beauty all around me,
May I walk
Wandering on a trail of beauty,
Lively, I walk."

---- Navajo Song

"For there are some people who can live without wild things about them and the earth beneath their feet, and some who cannot. To those of us who, in a city, are always aware of the abused and abased earth below the pavement, walking on the grass, watching the flight of birds, or finding the first spring dandelion are the rights as old and unalienable as the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don’t love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are."

---- Louise Dickinson Rich

"At first, the people talking about ecology were only defending the fishes, the animals, the forest, and the river. They didn'��t realize that human beings were in the forest....�� and that these human beings were the real ecologist, because they couldn’t live without the forest and the forest couldn'��t be saved without them."

---- Osmarino Amancio Rodrigues (Amazonian)

"You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children..., that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself...."

---- Chief Seattle

"...The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred Earth.

Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing..."

---- Luther Standing Bear

"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste."

---- Wallace Stegner (American writer, historian, and environmentalist)
from the Wilderness Letter, written to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, 1960

"Once in a while you find a place on earth that becomes your very own. A place undefined. Waiting for you to bring your color, your self. A place untouched, unspoiled, undeveloped. Raw, honest, and haunting. No one, nothing is telling you how to feel or who to be. Let the mountains have you for a day."

---- Sundance

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

---- Dr. David Suzuki (The Nature Of Things)

"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles."

----Dr. David Suzuki

"The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing.. the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs."

---- Dr. David Suzuki

"People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don'��t want to hear that we'��re on the wrong path, that we'��ve got to shift gears and start thinking differently."

---- David Suzuki

"We no longer see the world as a single entity. We’ve moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world."

---- Dr. David Suzuki

"We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "��slowmotion catastrophe"..,�� one we expected to kick in perhaps.... generations later.

....Instead.., the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly."

---- Dr. David Suzuki