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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This singular belief that God exists beyond or outside the Earth...shaped a paradigm that led to a disconnection between people and all other species. Prior to medieval Christianity, and for the majority of humankind's time, the sacred was deemed to exist in a vast variety of forms found on Earth.”
― Catriona MacGregor, Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth

“Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open.”
― Thomas Dewar

“Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.”
― John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
― Baba Dioum

“I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.”
― Aldo Leopold, The River of the Mother of God: and Other Essays

“If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”
― John Muir, John Muir Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures ... Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“99% of human existence has been nonindustrial, nonmajor agriculture, it's been hunting, gathering & agroecology.”
― Dennis Martinez

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead