The Hippie Museum



"The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit - not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves ... You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into." ........Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Spring, 1854


"What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound With your ear down to the ground We want the world and we want it... We want the world and we want it... Now Now? Now!" ........Jim Morrison (The Doors)

"Now I see the secret of the makings of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"If you plant for a year plant rice. If you plant for ten years plant trees. If you plan for 100 years educate your children." ----Chinese Proverb

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ~William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida 1601

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." ~Charles A. Lindberg, Life December 1967

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." Mahatma Gandhi

"God has cared for these trees,saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools." --------Joan Muir

"Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass, From these companions, power and grace." "----in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages…in the woods we return to reason and faith." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." -----John Muir

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." --------- William Blake

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves." John Muir

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." Helen Keller

"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants." --------Stewart Udall

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. " ----- Edward Abbey
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