Thursday, February 10, 2005
- "We consider species to be like a brick in the foundation of a building. You can probably lose one or two or a dozen bricks and still have a standing house. But by the time you've lost 20 per cent of species, you're going to destabilize the entire structure. That's the way ecosystems work."- Donald Falk, Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 1989
- "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."- John Muir
Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Marv Levy,
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. - We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt "On Taste" (1859)
- If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Stop for a second and smell the roses, think about what nature means to you. Think about how the natural world as you have known it has changed in your own lifetime. Think about the changes to come, and your children and grandchildren. Endeavor to pass that awareness and concern on to others.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake (1757–1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Letter, 23 Aug. 1799 (published in The Letters of William Blake, 1956). - The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank (1929–45), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947; tr. 1952), entry for 23 Feb. 1944.
- Kill Nothing but Time...Take Nothing but Pictures...Leave Nothing but Tracks...
- There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story
- How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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