"Do the best you can in the place where you are, and be kind. Kind to yourself, kind to your neighbors, and kind to the land." - Helen Nearing

"Love the animals, love the plants... if you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things." - Fyodor Dostoyevshy

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir

"The reality of life on earth is a whole, circle... in which everything has its part to play..." - Elizabeth Dodson Gray

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, commited citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. " - Margaret Mead

"Since the land is the parent, let the citizens take care of her more carefully than children do their mother." - Plato

"It's important that people... be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for... open spaces." - Senator Barry Goldwater

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The landscapes were like a violin bow that played upon my soul." - Marie Henri Beyl Stendhal

"Each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future." - Charles Lindbergh

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while." - Willa Cather in O! Pioneers

"The land is just too beautiful not to be shared or viewed by others. A place of peace and quiet to be alone with God and the nature He has created." - Scott Hansen

"We humble humans are not in charge, merely stewards hoping to tend as best we can what we have been blessed with." - Jim Carpenter