“Bringing nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl. If cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn’t be touched.”
"I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem."
- Stone Gossard
Self-esteem
"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