Noah's Garden Quotes

“I urge you to imagine the interlaced abundance if, throughout suburbia, every stockade fence, every chain-linked boundary, were to be buried in varied greenery and each of them and every hedge transformed into a hedgerow. I ask you, at least, to open the door to some first guest that your party might begin.”
― Sara Bonnett Stein, Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards

“If one has lost one's berries, one is likely to lose one's robins too.”
― Sara Bonnett Stein, Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards

“The recovery of biodiversity after major extinctions takes several million years. In the interval, the world is inhabited by a list of species more or less equivalent to ragweed and roaches.”
― Sara Bonnett Stein, Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards

“....a baby forest smothered in its bed.....”
― Sara Bonnett Stein, Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards