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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather. — Rain Phoenix

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. — Christy Turlington

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. — Mary Roach

I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it. — Colin Beavan No Impact Man

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present - pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. When we are unable to return the favor, we can pay it forward to someone or something else. Using this approach, we can see ourselves as part of a larger flow of giving and receiving throughout time. Receiving from the past, we can give to the future. When tackling issues such as climate change, the stance of gratitude is a refreshing alternative to guilt or fear as a source of motivation. — Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

I'm planting a tree to teach me to make the world a better place. — Andrea Koehle Jones from The Wish Trees

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are. — Ian Rankin Blood Hunt

All our wisdom is stored in the trees. — Santosh Kalwar

Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered an explosion of global tourism — Arthur C. Clarke 2061: Odyssey...

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. — Margaret Mitchell Gone with the...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau Familiar Letters

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? — Paulo Coelho The Winner...

How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.-Laurance S. Rockefeller

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