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"...I
only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could
use."
~ Mother Teresa
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Any
progress achieved in addressing the goals of poverty and hunger eradication, improved
health, and environmental protection is unlikely to be sustained if most of the
ecosystem services on which humanity relies continues to be degraded.
--
UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the
poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we
really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us:
"With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and
air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their
world collapsed around them."
~ U
Thant |  |
Every
creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands
it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
~ Henry
David Thoreau
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"We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need
to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race.
We are in a state of global denial."
~ Ted
Turner |
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"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to
protect man."
~ Stewart
Udall "A
land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive
as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources
and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life."
~ Stewart
Udall |  |
The
packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life
of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
~ David Wann
"We
have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its
other creatures do."
~ Barbara Ward
"Our
only choice, whatever our dogma, is to protect the Earth. This is our common progress
or our common ruin. There is nothing in between"
~ Barbra Ward, Special Advisor
of the UN Development Program
"You
didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You
are not a stranger here."
~ Alan Watts
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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
-- Dennis
Weaver |
"To
halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem."
~ Douglas P. Wheeler
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time
proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting
her seniority.
~ E.
B. White |  |
"I
awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour
the world. This makes it hard to plan my day."
~ E.
B. White
"I
am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good.
Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better
change of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively
instead of skeptically and dictatorially."
~ E.
B. White
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian
axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
~ Lynn White,
Jr.
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"This is what you should do;
love the Earth and sun and the animals...
~ Walt Whitman
After you have
exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have
found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains?
Nature remains.
~ Walt
Whitman |
"Now
I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open
air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
~ Walt
Whitman
"This
is what you should do;
love the Earth and sun and the animals,
despite
riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labour to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning
God,
have patience and indulgence towards the people,
take off your
hat to nothing known or unknown
or to any many or number of men...
re-examine
all you have been told at school
or church or in any book,
dismiss what
insults your soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
~ Walt
Whitman
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of
more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
~ Richard Wilkinson
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To be whole.
To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected
to rather than what we are separate from."
~ Terry
Tempest Williams |
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"Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future."
~ Timothy Wirth
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"If
we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce
food either."
~ Joseph Woodkrutch
