“Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestor. We borrow it from our children.”

Ancient Native American Proverb, quoted in The Green Gardener’s Guide, Joe Lamp’l, Cool Springs Press, 2007

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“Nature is to be respected, not just controlled. Nature is a process that includes us, not a product external to us… Our proper attitude toward nature is awe, not utility.”

2001 Kansas City Gifts of Pluralism Interfaith Conference declaration, quoted in The Kansas City Star, January 6, 2010

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“It’s better not to pursue a past that has already been lost.”

Zhang Liangnang, ninth century, from Lake With No Name, Daine Wei Liang, Simon and Schuster, 2003

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“To live in this place is, in part, to destroy it; that is the paradox – and the responsibility – we live with every day.”

Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow – a life in Alaska, HarperCollins, 2009

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“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we are taught.”

Baba Dioum, Senagelese Conservationist, quoted in The Complete Katy Trail Guidebook, Pebble Publishing, 2005

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“When I was a kid, I used to annoy my parents with questions like ‘How much does that mountain weigh?’ Age has failed to cure me of this terminal curiosity.”

Brett Dufur, The Complete Katy Trail Guidebook, 8th Edition, Pebble Publishing Inc, 2005

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“Here were seas of grass sometimes taller than a horse and rider, carpets of wildflowers presenting a stunning spectrum of colors, and black, loamy soil that seemed endless… Nowhere on the planet was there a grassland complex like the midwestern tallgrass prairie.”

Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers, A Falcon Guide, Doug Ladd and Frank Oberle, Nature Conservancy, 1995

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“To see life as a whole – to observe what all life has in common – requires a shift in the way we normally look at things. We must look beyond the individual insect or tree or flower and seek a more panoramic perspective. We need to think as much about process as we do about structure. From this expanded viewpoint, we can see life in terms of patterns and rules. Using these rules, life builds, organizes, recycles, and re-creates itself.”

The Way Life Works, Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson, 1998

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“... all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. The child is satisfied, having found the universal center of self in all things.”

Maria Montessori, To Educate the Human Potential, quoted in Montessori Today, Paula Polk Lillard, 1996

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“We do not think the solution to environmental crises is self-sufficiency, because such a condition is not possible even if it were desirable. If self-sufficient human communities exist at all, they are extremely rare. One might argue that no such community ever existed by interpreting ’self-sufficient’ to mean independent of other humans.”

The Integral Urban House – Self-Reliant Living in the City, Helga Olkowski, Bill Olkowski, 1979 Sierra Club Books

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