nature quotes
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
Tags: nature Ralph Ellison
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, Give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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