“For in the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” -Baba Dioum

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so!"  Mark Twain

"To destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining, in the days of our children, the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down."  Theodore Roosevelt

"A sustainable community is defined as one that is able to satisfy its needs and aspirations without diminishing the chances of future generations."- quote from Ecological Literacy, Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World, by Michael K.Stone and Zenobia Barlow

"Congress will not move on Global Warming until America moves on Global Warming.  When the people lead, political "leaders" follow.  You need to lead in your community."
  -  Larry J.Schweiger, Pres & Chief Exec Officer Nat.Wildlife Fed., Aug/Sep 2006, p.9

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