inspirational quotes

"Perhaps the first step toward regaining possession of our souls will be to repossess and re-plan the whole landscape." - Lewis Mumford 1968

"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first." — Wendell Berry

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1956


“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, 1923

forging an emotional bond

"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love." -S.J. Gould