"The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before,that is, to think analogically."

- J. M. Coetzee

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

- Henri Poincare

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting."

- Steven Weinberg

"He who plants a tree, Plants a hope."

- Lucy Larcom, "Plant a Tree"

"Knowledge has three degrees - Opinion, Science, Illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition."

- Plotinus

"If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today."

- Stephen Girard

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

- Sir William Bragg

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

- Kahlil Gibran

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

- Native American Proverb

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

- Linda Hogan

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

- Charles Mingus

"It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little."

- Oscar Wilde

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

- Carl Jung

"The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves."

- Ayn Rand