In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World. - Henry David Thoreau

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. -John Muir

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. - Chief Seattle

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees....-John Muir

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least that have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes parts of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. -William Wordsworth

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time. - TS Eliot

This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. - Chief Seattle

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley

A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, --that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms,-- the totality of nature... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature´s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man. - Chief Seattle

...all things share the same breath, the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath.- Chief Seattle

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?- Chief Seattle

Quotes from Lesser Mortals

American wilderness is not a need, a want, nor is it a desire, it is simply the fabric of our national being. It was here in our making, and it will be here, God willing, when we perish. To liquidate it merely for the gain of a few, is akin to sacrificing ones own soul to feed one self for the day. There is then a lesser tomorrow... - Douglas Harvey