After a visit to the beach, it is hard to realize that we live in a material world.

 —Pam Shaw

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

—William Shakespeare

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

 —Jacques Barzun

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers. Most of what I love about the country is a gift of the rivers… America is a great story, and there is a river on every page of it.

 —Charles Kuralt

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.

 —Norman Maclean

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

—Marshall McLuhan

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

 —W. Clement Stone

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

 —Ayn Rand

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

 —Norbert Wiener

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.

 —Albert Einstein

All are but parts of one stupendous soul, / Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

 —Alexander Pope

I say if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

 —Calvin (Bill Watterson)