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  • The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

    Technology   Men   Self  
    E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

    "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  • 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”
  • The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

  • Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

    Morning   Long   Ignorant  
    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company
  • 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.

    Life   Dog   Men  
  • It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

    Sympathy   Men   Law  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance Press
  • 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.
  • Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

    Men   Earth   Blind  
  • You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

    Mother   Reading   Angel  
  • Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

    John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.223, Syracuse University Press
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    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
  • 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  
  • Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

    Nature   Men   Society  
    Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”
  • I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

  • You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

    "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.
  • The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

    Men   Society   Outrun  
    Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand
  • Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

    Mother   Scarcity   Earth  
    Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.43, Island Press
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

    Dream   Nature   Bird  
    John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”
  • I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

    Animal   Men   Compassion  
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  • 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
  • Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

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