Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. – Orison Swett Marden

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

We are living too fast—yea, we are consuming the blessings given us, at a rate that may leave future generations to sit out in the cold and freeze to death. – W.A. Pryal, “Lumber for Hives: Some Interesting Data on the Way Lumber is being

Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. – Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956