Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity...that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world. -Gaylord Nelson

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -John Muir

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. -George Gordon

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright