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“I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett

“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”

“This land is your land, this land is my land…” — Woody Guthrie

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than [one] seeks”― John Muir.

“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”

“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We’ll do the best we know. We’ll build our house and chop our wood. And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!” — From the musical Candide

“Matter doesn’t disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.” — Adrienne Maree Brown

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

“Being in nature’s presence transcends all of life’s cares.” — Unknown

“O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra.” — Amyr Klink

“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.” 

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise” — William Blake

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Be we merry while we may and mindful of joy, for heaviness of the heart can be had at the asking.” — Taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“Find joy in the sky, in the trees, in the flowers. There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse

“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachel Carson

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” — John Muir

“Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the ones less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — R. Frost

“Meanwhile the sun and clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.”

- Excerpt from Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese