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You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails .

You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Thomas Fuller. Unlike us, a tree must shed its leaves to show the world its true nature. John Charles Amesse.

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You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails .

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  1. You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails .

  2. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Thomas Fuller

  3. Unlike us, a tree must shed its leaves to show the world its true nature. John Charles Amesse

  4. Kites rise highest against the wind . . . not with it. Winston Churchill

  5. Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. Anonymous

  6. Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. Daniel Bernoulli

  7. Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. Anonymous

  8. Think Globally, Act Locally

  9. We shape ourselves through decisions that shape our environment. Rene Dubos

  10. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. Dr. Seuss – “The Lorax”

  11. What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau

  12. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll

  13. Whenever we come up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. James Carswell

  14. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Native American proverb

  15. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead

  16. An activist is not the one who says a river is dirty. An activist is the one who cleans it up. Ross Perot

  17. What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Mahatma Gandhi

  18. The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

  19. Those who love and free nature are never alone. Rachel Carson

  20. Nature is the unseen intelligence that loved us into being. Elbert Hubbard

  21. What you do to the earth, you do to yourself. Julia Butterfly Hill

  22. The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. Dalai Lama

  23. The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. Chinese Proverb

  24. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’. Luther Standing Bear

  25. We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. Terri Swearingen

  26. The earth is what we all have in common. Wendell Berry

  27. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan

  28. When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. David Orr

  29. Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  30. Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. Rene Dubos

  31. Every day is Earth Day. Anonymous

  32. We need the tonic of wildness [and] . . . nature. Henry David Thoreau

  33. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir

  34. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

  35. Nature . . . she pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. Ralph Waldo Emerson

  36. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. Socrates

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

  38. We cannot think too highly of nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton

  39. Drive nature forth by force, she’ll turn and rout the false refinements that would keep her out. Horace - Odes

  40. When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. Ymber Delecto

  41. Mountains are earth’s “undecaying” monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  42. Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. William Ruckelshaus

  43. Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin

  44. We cannot command nature expect by obeying her. Francis Bacon

  45. Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing “egosystems”. Don Rittner

  46. Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi

  47. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare

  48. I think I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer

  49. Have you thanked a green plant today ? Anonymous

  50. Respect your elders . . . and alders, and willows, and oaks. Anonymous

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