Friday, 8 November 2013

Earth: You need it more than it needs you - Earth day (22 April) message from Climate Action (2013)

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing - William Bird, GP, Berkshire West Primary Care Trust (quoted in Sustainable Development Commission 'Healthy Futures' publication, March 2007)

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! - Logan Pearsall Smith

Nature's rhythms are a constant source of inspiration - unattributable

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul - John Muir

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me - William Hazlitt

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries - Jimmy Carter

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them - Rt Hon John Gummer MP (writing in Water, Energy & Environment magazine, June 2007)

We all tend to feel better in the natural environment - so why are we working so hard to destroy it? - Dr Michael Dixon, Chairman, NHS Alliance (quoted in Sustainable Development Commission 'Healthy Futures' publication, March 2007)

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination - Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862)

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better - Monty Don, TV gardener (profiled in The Sunday Times, 29.10.2006)

No comments:

Post a Comment