The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.
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.
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
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.
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