"Nature is a gentle guide, but not more……" — Michel de Montaigne

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• The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
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• The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's… — David Attenborough
• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
• As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms… — Diane Ackerman
• Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon

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