“Such is the audacity of man,
that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature,
yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”
“A virgin forest
is where the hand
of man has never
set foot.”
“When a man says to me,
“I have the intensest love of nature,”
at once I know that he has none.”
“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will,
in the end,
take their revenge;
for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”
“For 200 years we’ve been
conquering Nature.
Now we’re beating
it to death.”
“Newspapers:
dead
trees
with
information
smeared
on
them.”
"They kill
good trees
to put
out
bad newspapers.”
“If civilization has risen from
the Stone Age,
it can rise again from
the Wastepaper Age.”
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes
out the trees,
then names the streets after them.”
“Economic advance
is not the same thing
as human progress.”
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.
We are all crew.”
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
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Nature Flow In
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“We never know
the worth of water till
the well is dry.
“Water
flows
uphill towards
money.”
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! “
“We do not inherit the earth
from our ancestors,
we borrow it
from our children.”
“There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.”
