· “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
· “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
· “Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life—that to the white man is an ‘unbroken wilderness.’
· But for us there was no wilderness, nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. Our faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings.
· For us, the world was full of beauty; for the other, it was a place to be endured until he went to another world.
· But we were wise. We knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard.” ~ Chief Luther Standing Bear
· “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
· “I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jets.” ~ Greta Thunberg
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