“People were evidently looking for something in the mountains they believed they had lost a long time ago.”— Robert Seethaler, amazon.com
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“A well-kempt forest begs Our Lady's grace; Someone is not disgusted, or at least Is laying bets upon the human race Retaining enough decency to last; The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about a country's soul.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“'ghost gear' - lost & abandoned fishing equipment in seas and oceans, totalling 10% of all plastic waste in the ocean & very harmful to marine life.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.”— Edward Thomas, amazon.com
“I don't mean to sound melodramatic or alarmist but unless we take immediately, drastic steps as a nation to cut our carbon emissions, 200 years from now, one of your descendants will be slaughtered in her filtration bunker for the two gallons of clean water she hid under her cot.”— Bess Kalb, twitter.com
“Food waste is perhaps the single biggest, and potentially most solvable, environmental problem today. Why don’t we spend more time and resources fixing this?”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Our job as people who understand the fundamental connectedness of the environment and thriving life of all kinds is to shift our culture (relatively quickly) to make the most meaningful of these changes feel inevitable. That shift starts with each of us.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“Each of us can make this change happen by doing things differently in our own lives. But it's down to Governments to make the really big shifts towards sustainability.”— Caroline Lucas, twitter.com
“The planet is in peril. From plastics, from pollution, and most of all from burning fossil fuels. We have to change the way we live, and we have to do it fast.”— Caroline Lucas, twitter.com
“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”— Lady Bird Johnson, sticksrocksdirt.com
“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”— Karl Pilkington, goodreads.com
“Our overuse of chemical fertilizers is going to cause big environmental problems for decades and centuries to come.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if fo…”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”— Ed Begley Junior, goodreads.com
“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com