http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org A Program for Reconnecting with Nature Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:17:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org/2006/05/some-sense-of-place-quotes/ http://www.exploringsenseofplace.org/2006/05/some-sense-of-place-quotes/#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 18:20:05 +0000 Joanna http://exploringsenseofplace.org/?p=18

Treat the Earth well. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. Ancient Native American Proverb

To be rooted is perhaps the most important but least understood need of the human soul. Simone Weil

We did not come into this world. We came out of it, like buds out of branches and butterflies out of cocoons. We are a natural product of this earth, and if we turn out to be intelligent beings, then it can only be because we are fruits of an intelligent earth, which is nourished in turn by an intelligent system of energy. Lyall Watson

It is not enough to just “love nature” or want to “be in harmony with Gaia.” Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place, and it must be grounded in information and experience. Gary Snyder

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

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