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“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”

“The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry

“This land is your land, this land is my land…” — Woody Guthrie

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.” — Dalai Lama

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett

“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”

“Matter doesn’t disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.” — Adrienne Maree Brown

“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We’ll do the best we know. We’ll build our house and chop our wood. And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!” — From the musical Candide

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

“O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra.” — Amyr Klink

“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.” 

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.“ — Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step

“He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise” — William Blake

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Be we merry while we may and mindful of joy, for heaviness of the heart can be had at the asking.” — Taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Suess, The Lorax

“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachel Carson

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” — John Muir

“Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the ones less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — R. Frost

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Being in nature’s presence transcends all of life’s cares.” — Unknown