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“Believe you can and you’re half way there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” — John Muir

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” - Unknown 

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” - H.D. Thoreau 

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

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

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

“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.”

“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” - Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

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

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

“This is what is meant, and is all that can be meant, by ‘sustainability.’ The fertility cycle turns by the law of nature. The cultural cycle turns on affection.” -Wendell Berry

“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

“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.” - The Lorax

“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught and the last stream poisoned will we realize we cannot eat money.” - Cree Indian Prophecy

“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

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker

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

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

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