Carl Sagan

November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 “…But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical..”

Rob Brezney

“Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire’s White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii’s big island. You own everything, my dear sovereign – the paintings in
all the museums of the world, as well as the internet and the wild horses and the roads. Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And makesure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes wth such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you.” See also http://www.freewillastrology.com/

John Muir

April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914 “Keep close to Nature’s heart . . . and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

Julia Butterfly Hill 

“I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation’s ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that’s true love.” See also  http://juliabutterflyhill.wordpress.com/

Judy Bari

November 7, 1949 – March 2, 1997 Judy Baru was an American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader, primarily active in Northern California after moving to the state in the mid-1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Mendocino County and related areas. She also organized Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 in an effort to bring together timber workers and environmentalists of Earth First! in common cause. See also http://www.judibari.org/

Daryl Cherney

Darryl Cherney (born 1956) is an American musician and environmental activist. He is a member of the Earth First! environmental movement. Born and raised in New York City, he lives in Humboldt County, California.

Cherney has produced five albums of his own political satire, and founded Environmentally Sound Promotions and Churn It Up Records. Together with Greg King, in 1986 he co-founded the movement to save what eventually became the federally protected Headwaters Forest Reserve near Eureka, California. He organized four rallies in support of Julia Butterfly Hill‘s two-year tree sit. He organized the Redwood Summer campaign with Judi Bari.

Robin
Williamson

“If you answer the riddle you’ll never begin, there is no answer to the riddle. I consider that life is pretty much an unanswerable riddle… I think that’s its magic.” See also  http://www.pigswhiskermusic.co.uk/

The  Dalai Lama 

“Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.”
See also  http://www.dalailama.com/

Robert
A.  Heinlein

July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988 Hugo Award winning Science Fiction author of Stranger In A Strange Land, among others.

Shemaia
Skywater

Since 2019 Shemaia has been an inspiration and guide to
the members of the RDG Mother Grove, acting teacher, guide, coach, healer through music * yoga * leading Kirtan* culinary awareness coaching/ayurveda * sound healing & mentoring in these realms. She describes herself as a “vibrational architect” teaching yoga public classes and 1 to 1, creating
beauty/ sacred space, music, sound healing events, bhakti immersions, workshops and international retreats. Shemaia lives and works in
Arcata CA, and is the leader of the
Skywater Kirtan Band, perfoming monthly Kirtan sessions at  local Yoga studios and coffee shops.