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What is the use of a House if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. - Thomas Edison

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. - Paul Hawken

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet - Albert Einstein

We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. - Terri Swearingen

The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Thank GOD, they cannot cut down the clouds! - Henry David Thoreau

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. - Chinese Proverb

If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wastefull. A far better way would be to avail ourselves of the sun's rays. - Nikola Tesla

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its tress and animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. - Chinese Proverb

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. - Audobon

I think when sustainability begins to drive business practices instead of greed, we'll evolve as a species - Tom Kay

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that - Thomas Edison

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