If you are in harmony with nature, with all the things around you, then you are in harmony with all human beings. If you have lost your relationship with nature you will inevitably lose your relationship with human beings.
~ Krishnamurti 1987



If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.
~ David Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia

Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.
~ Thomas Berry . Dream of the Earth.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein



In the end we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are shown.
~ BabaDioun – Senegalese Poet