Who said “The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened…”?

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

“And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”

“O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”

“Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.”

“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.”