Quotes

"Have a compassionate heart towards all creatures."

Confucius

"Guard the life of another creature as it is your own....
Because it is your own."

Lloyd Biggle

"Man, as a true animal, is the big brother of all other living things."

James Oliver Curwood

"Until we stop harming all other beings, we are still savages."

Thomas Edison

"Let there be none to mock my words..
But the bare mountains and the calling birds."

Oliver Fraser

"Show a loving consideration for all God's creatures."

Society of Friends

"Civilization is another word for respect for life."

Elizabeth Goudge

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Emmanuel Kant

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights."

Abraham Lincoln

"Think of your woods and orchards without birds."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Every animal that walks the eart, or swims,
or flies is precious beyond description."

James Mitchner

"All beings tremble before violence, all fear death, all love life."

Buddha

"Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature
are witness to your thought and deed."

Winnebago Philosophy

"We love the quiet, we suffer the mouse to play,
and when the woods are rustled by the wind, we fear not."

Native American Quote

"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot beseen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller

"Peaceful, the gentle deer untroubled graze,
All they need the forest supplies,
No greed for wealth, nor envy clouds their days,
But these are only beasts, and we are wise."

Poem from the Sanskrit

"Nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness
Deep down things..."

Gerald Manley Hopkins

"..Nature by itself means nothing,
  Says nothing except to the perceived mind....
  Beauty is where it is perceived...
  You surely will see...if you are prepared to see it...
  If you look for it....."

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lord Byron

"No plot so narrow, be but nature there,
No waste so vacant, but may well employ,
Each facility of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to Love and Beauty."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"There is something infinitely healing in the
Repeated refrains of nature...the
Assurance that dawn comes after the night,
And spring after the winter."

Rachel Carson

"There are brand new birds of
Twelve months growing,
Where a year ago, or less the twain,
No finches were, nor nightingales,
Nor thrushes
But only particles of grain
And earth and air, and rain."

Thomas Hardy

"A vision without a task is but a dream
A task without a vision is drudgery,
But a vision and a task is the hope of the world."

Anonymous

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the
Journeywork of stars....
And a mouse a miracle enough to stagger
Sextillion of infidels."

Walt Whitman

"The earth remains jagged and broken only
To him or her who remains jagged and broken."

Walt Whitman

"Go out I beg you
And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth
With all the wonders of a child."

Edna Jaques

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls to you like the wild geese...harsh and exciting...
Over and over announcing your place
In the family of things."

Mary Oliver

"Wildness made man but man cannot
Make wildness. He can only spare it."

David Brower

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops
And when the pattern which was weaving when
The sun went down, is weaving when it
Comes up tomorrow."

Henry Ward Beecher

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

John Keats

"Im filled with joy
When the day dawns quietly
Over the roof of the sky."

Eskimo Song

"Though we travel the world over to find
The beautiful, we must carry it with us or
We find it not."

Anonymous

"I want to realize brotherhood or identity
Not merely with the beings called human,
But I want to realize identity with all life,
Even with such beings as crawl on earth."

Mahatma Gandhi

"If one really loves nature, one can find
Beauty everywhere."

Vincent Van Gogh

"Imagine yourself in a green dell, where the
Meadows meet the wood, a soft wind
Gently blowing, and the big white clouds above
Sailing under a dome of blue."

Oliver G. Pike

"I wish you the happiness of birds."

Pam Brown

"How great the reverence I feel when a small
Bird accepts me as a friend."

Helen Thompson

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."

D.H. Lawrence

"Birds, the free tenants of land, air and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motions grace."

James Montgomery

"The wild goose comes north with the voice
Of freedom and adventure. He is more than
A big, far ranging bird; he is the
Epitome of wanderlust, limitless
Horizons and distant travel. He is the
Yearning and the dream, the search and
The wonder, the unfettered foot and the
Winds wild wing."

Hal Borlund

"When will man know what the birds know?"

Carl Sandberg

"A bird's life is so frail, so threatened, that
Each is a miracle...each new hatchling an
Astonishment."

Helen Thompson

"To be a bird is to be alive more intensively
Than any other living creature."

N.J. Berrill

"When you have shot one bird flying,
You have shot all birds flying."

Ernest Hemmingway

"How good to be a duck.
To float lightly on the water, the ripples
Touching one's feathers like gentle fingers."

Pam Brown

"Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh.
The grass swayed with them, and the shallow
Water, the earth fluttered under them.
The earth was dancing with the cranes,
And the low sun, and the wind and sky."

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds
In the fields around the house, in the barn, in
The woods, in the swamp...everywhere love
And songs and nests and eggs."

E.B. White

"Sit outside at midnight and close your eyes;
Feel the grass, the air, the space.
Listen to the birds for ten minutes at dawn."

Linda Hasselstrom

"Nature, in her blind search for life, has filled
Every possible cranny of the earth with some
Sort of fantastic creature."

Joseph Wood Krutch

"I like the birds that rule the sky. Eagles and
Larks. Swifts and swallows. Gulls.
Like?...Love....Need...Rejoice in."

Pam Brown

"There are no grotesques in nature."

Tom Browne

"Bury me where the birds will sing over my grave."

Alexander Wilson

"Wild thing....
You make my heart sing."

Chip Taylor

"If I can.....
help one fainting robin unto its nest again.
I shall not live in vain

Emily Dickinson