1. “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
—Lady Bird Johnson
2. “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
—John Muir
3. “A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
—John James Audubon
4. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”
—Henry David Thoreau
5. “We need the tonic of wildness—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau
6. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
—John Muir
7. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
—Albert Einstein
8. “The good man is the friend of all living things.”
—Gandhi
9. “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”
—David Attenborough
10. “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
—David Attenborough
11. “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
12. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. “Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.”
—Chief Seattle
15. “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
—Mother Teresa
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