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All spruced up
(pine trees)
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The Big BLOOM
(spring trees, flowers)
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Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship,
I marveled at the beauty of our planet.
People of the world, let us safe guard and enhance this beauty--
not destroy it.
- Yuri Gagarin (first person in space)
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The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world,
and all who live in it.
- Psalm 24:1
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Escape to Nature
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Field and Stream
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long
to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran
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The Great Outdoors
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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on the trees, and flowers,
and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther
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He walks in quiet solitude among the forest and the streams,
seeking grace in every step he takes.
His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand,
the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
- John Denver,
Rocky Mountain High
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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
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If love and peace can prevail on earth,
and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts,
the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
- Jimmy Carter
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If the current rate of deforestation continues the world's rain forests will
vanish within 100 years -- causing incredible effects on global climate and
eliminating the majority of plant and animal species presently on this planet.
- NASA Report
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In the end we will conserve only what we love.
We only love what we understand.
We only understand what we are taught.
- Barbra Dioum, Senegalese global ecologist.
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The joy of discovery … just open your mind and soak it all in!
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Just living is not enough . . . One must have sunshine,
freedom and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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The key to reducing dependence on external resources is not to increase the
supply but to decrease the demand.
- John Hammerstrom
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Lovin' the Outdoors
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Natural Instinct
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Nature … the great escape
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Nature never goes out of style.
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Nature's night life
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Nature provides a `free lunch', but only if we control our appetites.
- William Ruckelshaus
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
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Recycle: to alter or adopt to a new use or function.
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The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now.
The debate is over!
There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this.
But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length
because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's
a moral imperative.
- Al Gore
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Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations.
When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin
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Sometimes it's a view without the room -- and what a view!
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There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all.
And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and
well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are
determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that
cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they
had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.
- Al Gore
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The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice
something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors:
we borrow it from our children.
- David Brower?
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We have forgotten how to be good guests,
how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
- Barbara Ward
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We need to do everything we can to preserve our `wild blue yonder' -
- we never know the worth of water til the well is dry.
-Thomas Fuller
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What ever befalls the Earth befalls the children of the Earth.
- Chief Seattle
The song Colors of the Wind,
from Disney's movie Pocahontas,
captures the spirit of environmentalism and cross-cultural understanding, all in 3 and a half minutes.
No wonder Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz received an Academy Award for this work.
The lyrics are presented below.
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know.
You think you own whatever land you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of a mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For wether we are white or copper-skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain
Need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
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