ecological literacy Quotes

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.