If only we were wonderstruck

"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness
if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly,
how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."

"it is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction
of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird.
Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds,
we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals
-- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.
But at last it looks as if our people were awakening."
President Theodore Roosevelt