In doing research for a paper I came across some quotes that made an impact on my thoughts and really touched me. I thought I would share them.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. ~Ymber Delecto
In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine
I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon
I will leave you with these fruits of thought for now to blossom into action and hope.