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Quotable Environment

November 8, 2016

our planetFor the pivotal importance of today for our country, the world, and the environment, I offer the following thoughts.

– Athena Lee Bradley

 

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
― Ansel Adams

“We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.”

― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What is happening to my skin?
Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too”

- Talking Heads, Air

“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Like the fish in the ocean
We felt at home in the sea
We learned to live off the good land
We learned to climb up a tree
Then we got up on two legs
But we wanted to fly
When we messed up our homeland
We set sail for the sky”

- Peter Gabriel, Down to Earth

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
― George Carlin

“Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.”
– Wendell Berry

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”

– Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist and author of Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

“And what of our responsibility to futures generations? The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except withfaithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. I urge you to be sensitive to the many issues affecting the land and the whole environment and to unite with each other to seek the best solutions to these pressing problems.”
― Pope John Paul II

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they're going to sit.”
― David Suzuki

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
― Jimmy Carter

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”
― Gil Scott-Heron

he economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”
― Herman E. Daly

“Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.”
– Paul Hawken

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."

Alexis de Tocqueville

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