It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate. - Rachel Carson

we are still in the warming-up stage following the last Pleistocene glaciation — that the world’s climate, over the next thousands of years, will grow considerably warmer before beginning a downward swing into another Ice Age. But what we are experiencing now is perhaps

I am not afraid of being thought a sentimentalist when I stand here tonight and tell you that I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.

it is not half so important to know as to feel