It’s surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us but for all life on Earth.

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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 great fulfilment."

- David Attenborough

Awareness

"Crying wolf is a real danger."

- David Attenborough

Awareness

"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"

- David Attenborough

Awareness

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."

- David Attenborough

Awareness

"Cherish the natural world because you’re part of it and you depend on it."

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

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"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

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