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Sep 10, 2025
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
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.
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
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.
We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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.
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?
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Do your little bit of good where you are.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!