A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.

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"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the figure of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Compassion

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perseverance

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well-being

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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."

Environment

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

Environment