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
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
Oceans 5
"Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
– Aldo Leopold
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
Resonance Philanthropies
"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
– Khalil Gibran
Sequoia Climate Fund
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
Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Foundation
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
Grace Communications Foundation
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
– Angela Davis
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
Adessium Foundation
"Everybody needs beauty... places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
– John Muir
Sobrato Philanthropies
"It always seems impossible until it’s done.
– Nelson Mandela
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
Tempest Advisors
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
– Ruth Bader-Ginsberg
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 and US, 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
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