An Environmental Perspective

Our human roots in nature

“If we all lose hope, there is no hope”
 –Jane Goodall

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

“People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.”
E.O. Wilson

“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
Wendell Berry

“How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook. Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false. How utterly dull would be a wholly prudent man, or trout, or world!”
– Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac”

“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 ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
Native American proverb

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”
Gary Snyder