Sunday Inspiration

Some quotes to get your week started.

"Take a risk a day--one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it." Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

"If 10 percent of North Americans reduced their ecological footprint by one-third, 270 million acres of land. . .would be liberated. . . if only one person reduces their footprint from the average American 24-acre level down to 4 acres, there will be 20 more free and wild acres." Jim Merkel, Radical Simplicity

"Don't let 'those who have power' intimidate you. No matter how much power they have, they cannot prevent you from living your life, thinking independently, and speaking your mind." Howard Zinn

"Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful, or sublime--a black thundercloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged with the blood-red of the the sunset--he pauses for an instant in the attitude of worship. He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him all days are God's days." Charles Alexander Eastman Ohiyesa (Santee Sioux)

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." John James Audubon

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge."
Thomas Edison

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” Alice Walker

Posted by Rebecca Hammond