Quote: We are a part of and parcel of our surroundings
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. ~Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Quote: Land is a community
We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” ~Aldo Leopold
Quote: an ecologically sound society
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.” ~Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce
Quote: everyone needs beauty as well as bread
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
Quote: The folly of not valuing soil, Galileo Galilei
I recently came across this quote from Galileo, all those years ago, that I thought was very poignant. The care of our soils is of paramount importance, for it is from the soil that our life and livelihoods on the … Continued