Philosophy

Great minds think alike. Here are just a few of the greats who inspire us and whose words reflect our values.

• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir explorer, preservationist, patriot
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright architect, designer, educator
• The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet impressionist painter
• I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs naturalist, writer, poet

• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford inventor, founder Ford Motor Company
• Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein physicist, philosopher
• Those who toil in soil are God’s chosen people. Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of Independence
• The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd Pres. Of U.S.
• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we all belong. Thomas Berry cultural historian and “Earth Scholar”

• The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. Gregory Bateson anthropologist
• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. Buckminster Fuller architect, inventor, futurist
• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. Stewart Udall JFK’s Sec. of the Interior
• The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson author