Footprints

• To live in Iowa without appreciation for diversity, natural beauty and the joy of a spring flower is deprivation. - Ted Stilwill, director, Iowa Department of Education.
  
• One of the largest legacies anyone can pass to the next generation is the love and respect for the environment. We see Iowa as a place to make the heart grow. - Sharon Powell, executive director, Moingona Girl Scout Council.
  
• Today's children will be our managers in 2010. Let's see to it they are armed and have the opportunity to be good managers of our land. - Paul R. Kelley, Iowa League, Inc.
  
• We envision an Iowa in which rural and urban communities are interconnected with systems of trails, greenways, parks and wild places that form the "green infrastructure" of our state.

--Mark Ackelson, president, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.