Thursday, May 17, 2012

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man\\\'s need but not for man\\\'s greed."

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology. "

~Alan M. Eddison

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."

~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded."

~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Because we don\'t think about future generations, they will never forget us."

~Henrik Tikkanen

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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?"

~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."

~Michel de Montaigne, translated

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."

~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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, Jr.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

~Native American Proverb

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them."

~Horizon, \"Electronic Frontier\"

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. "

~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun\'s energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."

~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."

~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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. "

~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"The packaging for a microwavable \"microwave\" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries."

~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century."

~Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Magazine, 4 June 1978

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"For 200 years we\'ve been conquering Nature. Now we\'re beating it to death."

~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."

~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."

~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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."

~John Drinkwater

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot."

~Author Unknown

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"When a man says to me, \"I have the in tensest love of nature,\" at once I know that he has none."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn."

~Author Unknown

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves."

~David Orr

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

~Francis Bacon

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"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."

~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays