tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28012730636573449622024-02-08T09:21:22.159-08:00Think Greenenvironmental awareness blogadrian nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199219480672048457noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801273063657344962.post-88642413072117134952011-06-25T03:54:00.000-07:002011-06-25T03:54:57.244-07:00Think Green original song / project idea -READ INFO<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kKR9yukuCEA?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>adrian nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199219480672048457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801273063657344962.post-49073673360685381972011-06-25T03:51:00.000-07:002011-06-25T03:51:42.277-07:00Lady Gaga Hair Paul O'Grady Show June 2011<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z2AxFPN63Cs?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>adrian nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199219480672048457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801273063657344962.post-40642177148292069222011-06-25T03:39:00.000-07:002011-06-25T03:39:52.105-07:00Think Green: GREEN QUOTES<a href="http://adrian-nathaniel.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-quotes.html?spref=bl">Think Green: GREEN QUOTES</a>: "' Behold, my brothers, the spring has come. The earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! ..."adrian nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199219480672048457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801273063657344962.post-46283727102413857272011-06-25T03:38:00.000-07:002011-06-25T03:38:14.525-07:00GREEN QUOTES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Behold, my brothers, the spring has come. The earth has received the <br soft="" />embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! Every <br soft="" />seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious <br soft="" />power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors, <br soft="" />even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this land. <br soft="" />My love of our native soil is wholly mystical.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotaka), Hunkpapa Sioux (1831-1890)<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the <br soft="" />eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the <br soft="" />end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and <br soft="" />should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- John Muir<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Only after the last tree has been cut down…the last river has been <br soft="" />poisoned…the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be <br soft="" />eaten.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Cree Indian Prophesy<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass <br soft="" />roots up, not from the top down.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Paul Hawken, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The Ecology of Commerce<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Humans need continuous and spontaneous affiliations with the biological <br soft="" />world, and meaningful access to natural settings is as vital to the urban <br soft="" />dweller as to any other.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Dr. Stephen Kellert, Yale University<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I see the whole field of environmentalism and population as nothing more <br soft="" />than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper <br soft="" />sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are <br soft="" />trying to save ourselves.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Ted Turner<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Anonymous<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Native American Proverb<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the <br soft="" />destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little <br soft="" />comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to <br soft="" />awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother <br soft="" />deserves.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Ed Asner, Actor<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land <br soft="" />instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in <br soft="" />the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand <br soft="" />down to them amplified. . . </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Theodore Roosevelt<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">As the human population grows and our demand for natural resources <br soft="" />increases, more and more habitats are devastated. Today, we may be losing <br soft="" />30,000 species a year -- a rate much faster than at any time since the last <br soft="" />great extinction 65 million years ago that wiped out most of the dinosaurs. If <br soft="" />we continue on this course, we will destroy even ourselves.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- American Museum of Natural History<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change <br soft="" />the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Margaret Mead<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; <br soft="" />it is the one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but <br soft="" />a focusing lens on what we can become...</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Lady Bird Johnson<br />
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"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to <br soft="" />farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that have the <br soft="" />power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds <br soft="" />and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, <br soft="" />and to linger on in soil - all this though the intended target may be only a few <br soft="" />weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage <br soft="" />of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They <br soft="" />should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">'</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">".</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">.. all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. . . the air <br soft="" />shares its spirit with all the life it supports.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Chief Seattle<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you <br soft="" />may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-John Muir<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Henry David Thoreau<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building <br soft="" />the principles which nature has used in its domain.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Frank Lloyd Wright<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">But now, says the Once-ler, Now that you´re here, the word of the Lorax <br soft="" />seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, <br soft="" />nothing is going to get better. It's not.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Dr Seuss<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Shakespeare<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our <br soft="" />land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Franklin Delano Roosevelt<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The supreme reality of our time is ...the vulnerability of our planet.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-John F. Kennedy<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I think the environment should be put in the category of our national <br soft="" />security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. <br soft="" />Otherwise what is there to defend?</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Robert Redford<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the <br soft="" />crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect <br soft="" />everybody else.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Marshall McLuhan<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">When you plant a tree, never plant only one. Plant three -- one for shade, <br soft="" />one for fruit, one for beauty.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">" </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-African proverb<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of <br soft="" />the world.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-John Muir<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to <br soft="" />survive.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Albert Einstein<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Sooner or later, we sit down to a banquet of consequences.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">" </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, <br soft="" />becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon <br soft="" />led to lack of respect for humans too.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Luther Standing Bear<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">At 18 mpg, a car emits about 6 tons of carbon dioxide per year.<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air <br soft="" />and water that are doing it.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Dan Quayle<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Approximately 72 percent of the waste currently being landfilled or <br soft="" />incinerated consists of materials that could be put to higher and better use <br soft="" />through recycling or composting. Most of this material is office paper, <br soft="" />cardboard, non-recyclable paper, and food waste.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we <br soft="" />understand. We will understand only what we are taught.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Baba Dioum<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want <br soft="" />to live in.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Frances Moore Lappe<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the <br soft="" />selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the <br soft="" />unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Barbara Kingsolver<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become <br soft="" />global garbage cans.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Jacques Cousteau<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it <br soft="" />must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Theodore Roosevelt<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We don't have to protect the environment -- the Second Coming is at hand.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-James Watt<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Loren Eiseley<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's <br soft="" />lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on <br soft="" />the land. </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Luna Leopold<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family . . . The <br soft="" />water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Suquamish Chief Sealth<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
-Gandhi<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to <br soft="" />specimens; to communities, not to individuals.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">-Sara Stein<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Don't it always seem to go<br />
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone<br />
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Joni Mitchell<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px;">Quotes from Aldo Leopold<br />
</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Exploring everything from wilderness, to erosion, to urbanization, to the loss of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/passpig.htm"><b><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Passenger Pigeon</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">, the writings of Aldo Leopold are just as relevant now as when <br soft="" />Leopld wrote them in the first half of the 20th century:<br />
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"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The problem is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a <br soft="" />people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land,among <br soft="" />whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with <br soft="" />landlessness.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- Aldo Leopold, from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A Sand County Almanac</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">, 1949<br />
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<br />
"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">[I]f in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain <br soft="" />neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on <br soft="" />the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but <br soft="" />when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for. The <br soft="" />sixth house would not be development at all, but rather it would be mere <br soft="" />short-sighted stupidity. "Development" is like Shakespeare's virtue, "which <br soft="" />grown into a pleurisy, dies of its own too-much.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- Aldo Leopold, from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A Plea for Wilderness Hunting Grounds</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">, 1925<br />
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<br />
"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When <br soft="" />we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with <br soft="" />love and respect.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- Also Leopold, from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A Sand County Almanac, 1949<br />
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</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a <br soft="" />world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to <br soft="" />laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the <br soft="" />consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor <br soft="" />who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does <br soft="" />not want to be told otherwise.<br />
</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the <br soft="" />creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to <br soft="" />carry off more flood water, but in the process we lost our old willows where <br soft="" />the cows switched flies in the noon shade, and where the owl hooted on a <br soft="" />winter night. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians <br soft="" />bloomed.<br />
</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Some engineers are beginning to have a feeling in their bones that the <br soft="" />meanderings of a creek not only improve the landscape but are a necessary <br soft="" />part of the hydrologic functioning. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar <br soft="" />reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
- Also Leopold, from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Essays on Conservation from Round River </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">(published <br soft="" />posthumously)<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of <br soft="" />the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Also Leopold, from A Sand County Almanac<br />
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</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in <br soft="" />turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. <br soft="" />Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort <br soft="" />to understand and preserve this capacity.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Aldo Leopold from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A Sand County Almanac<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than <br soft="" />one rooted in pavements.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">- Aldo Leopold<br />
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"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land <br soft="" />health is yet to be born. </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
-Aldo Leopold, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">A Sand County Almanac<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling <br soft="" />it. </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
-Aldo Leopold<br />
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"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our <br soft="" />best.</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #006600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"<br />
-Aldo Leopold</span></i></span>adrian nathanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199219480672048457noreply@blogger.com0