“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”— John Muir, en.wikiquote.org
“We shall return to proven ways—not because they are old, but because they are true.”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“I say study history, not the future. Study history to prepare for the future.”— Michel Foucault, monoskop.org
“I have always thought, none of our research matters unless it is generalizable, unless we can learn something from it that has implications beyond its own time.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“You know today's poets don't read the great poems of the past because there's little evidence they steal any of their virtues.”— News for Poets, twitter.com
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”— Marcus Garvey, amazon.com
“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation.”— T. S. Eliot, coldbacon.com
“I hunt for a lot of reasons. I hunt because I’m an environmentalist and a conservationist. I hunt because I believe that I’m closer to the Earth when I’m engaging with it and there’s something at stake. It doesn’t have that ‘tourist’ feeling that hikes do where you’re taking posed photographs on top…”— James B. Barnes, Daniel Hayes, thoughtcatalog.com
“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the…”— Theodore Roosevelt, nps.gov
“Each new generation, every new human being, as he becomes conscious of being inserted between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave anew the path of thought. And it is after all possible, and seems to me likely, that the strange survival of great works, their rel…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“Do not deny history. American culture is based on novelty, on difference; Europeans are not interested in new ways as much as they are interested in refining a concept which has existed through the centuries. It is a continuing evolution, not a revolution.”— Massimo Vignelli, amazon.com
“Life propagates itself by ceaselessly adding to itself what it successively acquires — like a memory… Something passes, something grows, through the long chain of living creatures.”— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.com
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, 'tradition' should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better…”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com