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Katharine Lee Bates
“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!”

Haida Indian proverb
“We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

Philip James Bailey
“Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.”

George Washington Carver
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland
“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.”