We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. – Chief Seattle, 1855
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. – Richard Wilkinson
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot
