If future generations are to remember us with gratitude...

[Guest guest]

" For there are some people who can live without wild things about

them and the earth beneath their feet, and some who cannot. To those

of us who, in a city, are always aware of the abused and abased

earth below the pavement, walking on the grass, watching the flight

of birds, or finding the first spring dandelion are the rights as

old and unalienable as the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit

of happiness. We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We

don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply

something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we

accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the

happier we are. "

-- Louise Dickenson Rich

" If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than

contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of our

technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in

the beginning, not just after we got through with it. "

-- President Lyndon B. , upon signing The Wilderness Act of

1964