Gerstner Philanthropies
"We in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
– Rachel Carson
Park Foundation
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
– Mary Oliver
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
– Barack Obama
The Volgenau Foundation
"Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
– Richard St Barbe Baker
Passport Foundation
". . . between beauty and the measured
– KCW
Sequoia Climate Foundation
"The movement must go beyond its leaders. It must be something that is continuous, with goals and ideals that the leadership can build on.
– Philip Vera Cruz
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
– Rachel Carson
Oak Foundation
"If it was easy someone else would have done it.
– Unknown
Overbrook Foundation
"I arise in the mornings torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
– E.B. White
The Volgenau Foundation
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
– Henry David Thoreau
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
– John Muir
Grace Communications Foundation
"For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.
– Amanda Gorman
The Volgenau Foundation
"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
– Rachel Carson
The Zegar Family Foundation
"Environmentalism isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.
– Lisa P. Jackson
Point Break Foundation
"Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tundra Glacier Fund
"It is our collective and individual responsibility...to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.
– Dalai Lama
Marisla Foundation
"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
– Jane Goodall
Bloomberg Philanthropies
"People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.
– NK Jemisin
Program Manager Europe, PSF
"We must undertake struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no replacement planet, we only have this one, and we have to take action.
– Berta Carceres
Systems Manager, PSF
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
– Bertrand Russell
Program Manager Asia, PSF
"Indifference is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
– Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Senior Advisor, Sponsored Projects, RPA
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
– Thoreau
Executive Director, PSF
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou
Managing Director, PSF
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.
– Albert Einstein
Program Manager US, PSF
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
– Lilla Watson
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