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  • The earth is what we all have in common.

    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint
  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

    Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”
  • With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

    "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

    Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”
  • The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

    Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963.
  • I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

  • I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

    "Personal Quote/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.
  • Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

    Nature   Men   Air  
    Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
  • How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

    Wall   Men   Wind  
    "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.
  • What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

    "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.
  • I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  • Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

    Life   Courage   Time  
  • What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • 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.

  • I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

    Music   Nature   Health  
    John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”
  • There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

    Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

    Use   Fuel   Fossils  
    Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”
  • We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

    Effort   Would Be   World  
  • We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

    A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)
  • We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

  • ... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

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