“We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth; our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment…

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what difference you want to make.  (Jane Goodman)

No work is insignificant.  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity.   (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.  (Helen Keller)

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  (John Muir)

The task before us, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. (Teilhard deChardin SJ)

When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves.  (David Orr)

When we discover that there is in us a universal heart – we will have finally become a fully human, human being.  (Joan Chittister, OSB)

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, where less can be more. …

One is called to live nonviolently even if the change one works for seems impossible.  (Daniel Berrigan)