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Our changing ecology that you rely on

To live in harmony with nature is to accept its amazing gifts with humility and to respond, in turn, by caring for the land. This is the work of the Bethel Land Trust, as we connect people of all ages to the wonders of nature and the meaning of stewardship. I invite you to join us.

 

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

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Robert Lynd 1879-1949

 

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

John Moir

 

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

Theodore Roosevelt

 

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Theodore Roosevelt

 

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

 

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .”

Wallace Stegner,

 

“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”

David Attenborough

 

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”

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