"Environmental education is education in, about and for the environment."

                                                                                                            -A. Lucas

"First, all education is environmental education. By what is included or excluded, students are taught that they are part of or apart from the natural world."

                                                                                                            -David Orr

"Environmental literacy is an individual's capacity to UNDERSTAND broadly how people and societies RELATE to each other and to natural systems, and how they might do so SUSTAINABLY; to SEE connections and interrelatedness, and to ACT successfully on those insights in daily life."

                                                                                                                             -James Elder

“EE emphasizes "the inescapable embeddedness of human beings in natural systems."

-Smith and Williams

“The ecologically literate person has the knowledge necessary to comprehend interrelatedness, and an attitude of care or stewardship. Such a person would also have the practical competence required to act on the basis of knowledge and feeling…Ecological literacy presumes that we understand our place in the story of evolution. It is to know that our health, well-being, and ultimately your survival depend on working with, not against, natural forces.”

                                                                                                            -David Orr

“Ecological identity refers to all the different ways people construe themselves in relationship to the earth as manifested in personality, values, actions, and sense."
                                                                                                                                                                    -Mitchell Thomashow