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| Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment. ~Will Rogers, Trust for Public Land |
| Savvy states and communities are starting to think about green space in a more thoughtful and systematic way. They realize that green infrastructure is not a frill—it is smart conservation for the twenty-first century. ~ Mark A. Benedict and Edward T.McMahon, Conservation Fund |
| High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper. ~Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group |
| The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment. ~Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group |
| The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere. ~Ed McMahon, Conservation Fund |
| The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth. ~Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group |
| Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail. ~Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley |
| The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development… Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place. ~Ed McMahon, Conservation Fund |
| God Bless America. Let's save some of it. ~Edward Abbey |
| There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. ~Theodore Roosevelt |
| Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ~Theodore Roosevelt |
| While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. ~Barry Goldwater |
| We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." ~Aldo Leopold |
| Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ~Rene Dubos |
| Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~Frank N. Ikard |
| I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. ~Andy Warhol |
| So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. ~Philip Shabecoff |
| For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~Richard P. Feynman |
| Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss |