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The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.
Sep 17, 2025
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.
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?
Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Forests are the lungs of our land.
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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