http://www.econsultingllc.org Miscellaneous thought provoking quotations and ideas Thur, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:15 EST Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:58 EST mge@managing.com (EConsulting&#8482;) wbe@managing.com (EConsulting&#8482;) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=2 The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. <br /> <br /> -Havelock Ellis, <span class="it">The Dance of Life<span>, 1923 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=3 There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. <br /> <br /> -Mohandas K. Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=4 There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. <br /> <br /> -Robert Orben http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=5 It wasn't the <span class="it">Exxon Valdez<span> captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. <br /> <br /> -Greenpeace advertisement, <span class="it">New York Times<span>, 25 February 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=6 Modern technology Owes ecology An apology. <br /> <br /> -Alan M. Eddison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=7 In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. <br /> <br /> -Paul Brooks, <span class="it">The Pursuit of Wilderness<span>, 1971 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=8 Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. <br /> <br /> -Quoted in <span class="it">Time<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=9 Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. <br /> <br /> -William Ruckelshaus, <span class="it">Business Week<span>, 18 June 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=10 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. <br /> <br /> -Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, <span class="it">Ogilvy on Advertising<span>, 1985 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=11 Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. <br /> <br /> -Henrik Tikkanen http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=12 I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. <br /> <br /> -Darryl Cherney, quoted in <span class="it">Smithsonian<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=13 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? <br /> <br /> -Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=14 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller, <span class="it">Gnomologia<span>, 1732 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=15 Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! <br /> <br /> -Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=16 There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. <br /> <br /> -Marshall McLuhan, 1964 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=17 Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Horizon<span>, "Electronic Frontier" http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=18 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. <br /> <br /> -James G. Watt, quoted in <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 8 March 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=19 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. <br /> <br /> -Sir George Porter, quoted in <span class="it">The Observer<span>, 26 August 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=20 The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., <span class="it">Loose Talk<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=21 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. <br /> <br /> -Aldo Leopold, <span class="it">A Sand County Almanac<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=22 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. <br /> <br /> -Marya Mannes, <span class="it">More in Anger<span>, 1958 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=23 I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. <br /> <br /> -Ymber Delecto http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=24 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. <br /> <br /> -David Wann, <span class="it">Buzzworm<span>, November 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=25 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. <br /> <br /> -Philip Shabecoff, <span class="it">New York Times Magazine<span>, 4 June 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=26 Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. <br /> <br /> -John Clapham, <span class="it">A Concise Economic History of Britain<span>, 1957 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=27 And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess." <br /> <br /> -Art Buchwald, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=28 The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. <br /> <br /> -Paul A. Samuelson, <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 12 June 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=29 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. <br /> <br /> -Bill Vaughn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=30 For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. <br /> <br /> -Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, <span class="it">The Greenhouse Trap<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=31 If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. <br /> <br /> -Jacques Barzun, <span class="it">The House of Intellect<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=32 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. <br /> <br /> -Elwyn Brooks White, <span class="it">Essays of E.B. White<span>, 1977 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=33 The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. <br /> <br /> -Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, <span class="it">États et empires de la lune<span>, 1656 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=34 Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. <br /> <br /> -Pliny the Elder, <span class="it">The Natural History<span>, translated by Philemon Holland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=35 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. <br /> <br /> -George Carlin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=36 A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. <br /> <br /> -David Brin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=37 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." <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Washington Post<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=38 Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. <br /> <br /> -Dennis Gabor, <span class="it">Inventing the Future<span>, 1964 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=39 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. <br /> <br /> -John Drinkwater http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=40 A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=41 When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson, <span class="it">Journals<span>, 1857 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=42 I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. <br /> <br /> -A Chieftan from Nigeria http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=43 When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -David Orr http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=44 We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. <br /> <br /> -Francis Bacon http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=45 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. <br /> <br /> -Robert Lynd, <span class="it">The Blue Lion and Other Essays<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=46 Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? <br /> <br /> -Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=47 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? <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Reader's Digest<span>, November 1939 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=48 It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood. <br /> <br /> -Bernand De Voto, <span class="it">Fortune<span>, June 1947 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=49 Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=50 We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. <br /> <br /> -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=51 Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. <br /> <br /> -Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (<span class="it">Thank you, Bekah<span>.) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=52 Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. <br /> <br /> -E. Knight http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=53 Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. <br /> <br /> -Aunt Bee Taylor, <span class="it">The Andy Griffith Show<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=54 The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. <br /> <br /> -Ross Perot http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=55 Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. <br /> <br /> -Richard Bach http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=56 It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. <br /> <br /> -Ansel Adams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=57 We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=58 Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. <br /> <br /> -Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=59 Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? <br /> <br /> -Pierre Troubetzkoy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=60 For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. <br /> <br /> -Richard P. Feynman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=61 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle, 1855 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=62 When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=63 You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. <br /> <br /> -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <span class="it">Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes<span>, 1755 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=64 Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. <br /> <br /> -David Gerrold http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=65 Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. <br /> <br /> -Albert Schweitzer, quoted in James Brabazon, <span class="it">Albert Schweitzer<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=66 Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. <br /> <br /> -Ian McHarg http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=67 Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Reader's Digest<span>, July 1972 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=68 The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Jones, <span class="it">The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=69 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Luther Standing Bear http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=70 The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. <br /> <br /> -Loudon Wainwright http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=71 Every day is Earth Day. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=72 Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? <br /> <br /> -Lane Olinghouse http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=73 Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. <br /> <br /> -Luther Burbank http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=74 Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. <br /> <br /> -William Rathje, <span class="it">The Economist<span>, 8 September 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=75 Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. <br /> <br /> -Stephanie Mills, ed., <span class="it">In Praise of Nature<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=76 How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. <br /> <br /> -Anonymous Wintu Woman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=77 Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. <br /> <br /> -Dave Foreman, <span class="it">Harper's<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=78 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. <br /> <br /> -Carl Sagan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=79 The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. <br /> <br /> -John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=80 Man maketh a death which Nature never made. <br /> <br /> -Edward Young http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=81 It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=82 God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=83 It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? <br /> <br /> -Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, <span class="it">Improving Risk Communication<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=84 Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. <br /> <br /> -Gil Stern http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=85 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. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," <span class="it">The Panda's Thumb<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=86 Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. <br /> <br /> -David Ehrenfeld, <span class="it">The Arrogance of Humanism<span>, 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=87 The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. <br /> <br /> -Irving Babbitt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=88 Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. <br /> <br /> -Horace, <span class="it">Odes<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=89 Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. <br /> <br /> -Reé Dubos, <span class="it">Medical Utopias<span>, 1961 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=90 In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. <br /> <br /> -Richard Wilkinson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=91 Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! <br /> <br /> -Don A. Dillman, <span class="it">Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<span>, January 1977 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=92 We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Arnold Toynbee http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=93 Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. <br /> <br /> -Ren&#233; Dubos, <span class="it">Mirage of Health<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=94 Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Autumn Across America<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=95 Waste is a tax on the whole people. <br /> <br /> -Albert W. Atwood http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=96 It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, <span class="it">Walden<span>, 1854 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=97 The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=98 Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. <br /> <br /> -Jean Arp http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=99 We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=100 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. <br /> <br /> -Anton Chekhov, <span class="it">Uncle Vanya<span>, 1897 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=101 A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. <br /> <br /> -Eugene M. Poirot, <span class="it">Our Margin of Life<span>, 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=102 When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! <br /> <br /> -Grey Livingston http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=103 After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. <br /> <br /> -Pam Shaw http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=104 As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." <br /> <br /> -U Thant, speech, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=105 The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people. <br /> <br /> -William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, 1931 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=106 Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment. <br /> <br /> -Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, <span class="it">Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment<span>, 1996 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=107 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=108 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. <br /> <br /> -William O. Douglas, <span class="it">Go East, Young Man<span>, 1974 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=109 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. <br /> <br /> -Edward O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=110 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. <br /> <br /> -Herman E. Daly, <span class="it">Steady-State Economics<span>, 1977 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=111 The human race will be the cancer of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Julian Huxley, attributed http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=112 Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. <br /> <br /> -Ren&#233; Dubos, quoted in <span class="it">Life<span>, 28 July 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=113 One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. <br /> <br /> -Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=114 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. <br /> <br /> -Jimmy Buffet, <span class="it">Mother Earth News<span>, March-April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=115 Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. <br /> <br /> -Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=116 The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. <br /> <br /> -Henry Fairlie, quoted in <span class="it">Conservation Foundation Letter<span>, November 1981 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=117 The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. <br /> <br /> -Garrett Hardin, <span class="it">The Ecologist<span>, February 1974 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=118 The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=119 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle (full text of <a href="http:www.solarhaven.orgChiefSeattle.htm">1854 Treaty oration<a>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=120 When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore. <br /> <br /> -Wintu Woman, 19th Century http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=122 The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. <br /> <br /> -E.F. Schumacher, <span class="it">Small is Beautiful<span>, 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=123 The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. <br /> <br /> -Kenneth E. Boulding, "The Ballad of Ecological Awareness," in M. Taghi Farvar and John P. Milton, eds., <span class="it">The Careless Technology<span>, 1972 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=124 There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. <br /> <br /> -Brooke Medicine Eagle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=125 This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages. But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself.... We've got to be stopped. <br /> <br /> -Michael L. Fischer, <span class="it">Harper's<span>, July 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=126 Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Circle of the Seasons<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=127 To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. <br /> <br /> -the Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=128 To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=129 Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. <br /> <br /> -J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, <span class="it">State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade<span>, 1984 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=130 U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. <br /> <br /> -Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, <span class="it">Christian Science Monitor<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=131 Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources. <br /> <br /> -W.H. Carothers http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=132 We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man? <br /> <br /> -John A. Livingston, in Borden Spears, ed., <span class="it">Wilderness Canada<span>, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=133 We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home because we have made the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable. For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination, resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger - those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds. <br /> <br /> -Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, <span class="it">Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment<span>, 1996 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=134 Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=135 We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. <br /> <br /> -Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=136 The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. <br /> <br /> -Lynn I. White, Jr., <span class="it">Science<span>, 10 March 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=137 The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. <br /> <br /> -Ren&#233; Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=138 We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Jeremy Rifkin, <span class="it">World Press Review<span>, 30 December 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=139 Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. <br /> <br /> -Lewis Mumford http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=140 When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. <br /> <br /> -Joseph Wood Krutch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=141 When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Lancet<span>, editorial on the "medical-industrial complex," 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=142 We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. <br /> <br /> -Janet Holmes à Court http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=143 With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. <br /> <br /> -Kenneth E. Boulding, in Frank F. Darling and John P. Milton, eds., <span class="it">Future Environments of North America<span>, 1966 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=144 You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem. <br /> <br /> -William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, <span class="it">New York Times<span>, 30 November 1988 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=145 Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. <br /> <br /> -Michael Fox, <span class="it">Sierra<span>, November-December 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=146 Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests." Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?" Loyd: "Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.'" <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver, <span class="it">Animal Dreams<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=147 To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver, <span class="it">Animal Dreams<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=148 In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Changing Times<span> magazine http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=149 I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. <br /> <br /> -John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., <span class="it">John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir<span>, 1938 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=150 Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=151 Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. <br /> <br /> -Juvenal, Satires http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=152 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. <br /> <br /> -George Gordon, Lord Byron, <span class="it">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=153 You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. <br /> <br /> -Hal Borland, <span class="it">Sundial of the Seasons<span>, 1964 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=154 And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. <br /> <br /> -William Shakespeare http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=155 Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. <br /> <br /> -Cree Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=156 "....I had read the accounts in history and heard jokes from my Australian friends referring to Aborigines eating people, and even eating their own babies. Was that true, I asked? Yes. Since the beginning of time, humans have experimented with everything. Even here on this continent, it was not possible to keep people from it. There had been Aboriginal tribes with kings, with female rulers, some who stole people away from another group, and some who ate human flesh. Mutants kill and walk away, leaving the body for disposal. The cannibals killed and used the carcass to nourish life. One group's purpose is neither better nor worse than the other. Killing a human, regardless if it's for protection, revenge, convenience, or food, is all the same. Not to kill another is what differentiates Real People from mutated human creatures. 'There is not morality in war,' they said. 'But cannibals never killed more in one than they could eat. In your wars, thousands are killed in a few minutes. Perhaps it might be worth suggesting to your leaders that both parties in your war agree to five minutes of combat. Then let all the parents come to the battlefield and collect the pieces and parts of their children, take them home and mourn and bury them. After that is over, another five minutes of battle might or might not be agreed upon. It is difficult to make sense of senselessness. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=157 There was no waste. Everything was recycled back into nature and back into the earth. This was one picnic that left no trash; in fact, you could barely tell we had ever camped and eaten at any of our sites. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=158 The Real People tribe believes humans still have evolutionary learning to do as a global family. They believe the universe is still unfolding and not a finished project. Humans seem too busy to become beings. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=159 I asked them if they had ever heard the name Jesus. 'Certainly,' I was told. 'The missionaries taught: Jesus is the Son of God. Our eldest brother. Divine Oneness in human form. He receives the greatest veneration. Oneness came to the earth many years ago to tell the Mutants how to live, what they had forgotten. Jesus did not come to the Real People tribe. He certainly could have, we were right here, but it wasn't our message. It didn't apply to us because we have not forgotten. We were already living His Truth. To us,' they continued, 'Oneness is not a thing. Mutants seem addicted to form. They can't accept anything invisible and without a shape. God, Jesus, Oneness for us is not an essence that surrounds things or is present inside of things—it is everything! <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=160 When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down, I take my rest. I dig the well from which I drink, I farm the soil that yields my food. I share creation, Kings can do no more. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb, 2500 B.C. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=161 Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=162 What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=163 Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. <br /> <br /> -Mark Twain http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=164 We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. <br /> <br /> -Margaret Mead http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=165 Becoming intoxicated with a dream gives us the passion to bring it into reality! <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=166 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. <br /> <br /> -W. M. Lewis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=167 The amount of sunshine energy that hits the surface of the Earth every minute is greater than the total amount of energy that the world's human population consumes in a year! <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Home Power Magazine<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=168 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=169 "...In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground—the unborn of the future Nation." <br /> <br /> -From The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (<span class="it">The Great Binding Law<span>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=170 Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. <br /> <br /> -Alan Watts http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=171 In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. <br /> <br /> -John C. Sawhill, former PresidentCEO of <a href="http:nature.org">The Nature Conservancy<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=172 Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Lorax<span> by Dr. Suess http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=173 Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=174 Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. <br /> <br /> -Benjamin Franklin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=175 Interview with Mahatma Gandhi: Reporter: "What do you think of Western civilization" Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=176 You must be the change you wish to see in the world. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=177 Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=178 I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevet http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=179 I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Edison, 1931 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=180 Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=181 Great spirits have always been met with violent opposition from mediocre minds. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=182 All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. <br /> <br /> -Arthur Schopenhauer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=183 What You Get When You Hook Up With The Power Company: 1. Never ending source of pollution from the production of the electricity at the source 2. Mining of a finite resource 3. Visual pollution around the land 4. High voltage towers and cabling cris- crossing the landscape 5. Support of a local monopoly 6. Ever increasing price for electricity 7. Crappy energy consuming buildings 8. Power failures, blackouts, and poor quality power <br /> <br /> -Gary Dorn, Permaculturist, Australia http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=184 Engineering is the art of modeling materials we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyse to resist loads we cannot properly assess in such a way that the community has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance. <br /> <br /> -President, Scottish Branch - Institute of Engineering UK, 1946 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=185 Not to have known, as most men have not, either the mountains or the desert, is not to have known oneself. <br /> <br /> -Joseph Wood Krutch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=186 Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and eat and sleep with the Earth. <br /> <br /> -Walt Whitman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=187 I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Carlyle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=188 He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=189 The causes that lie behind much sickness and human suffering are short-sightedness and greed. Health for all can be achieved only through the organized demand by people for greater equality in terms of land, water, services, and basic rights. More power to the people! <br /> <br /> -Dr. David Werner http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=190 Whoever saves one life saves the world. <br /> <br /> -From <span class="it">The Talmud<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=191 Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. <br /> <br /> -John McConnell, founder of <span class="it">International Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=192 All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. <br /> <br /> -Edmund Burke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=193 It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. <br /> <br /> -J.R.R. Tolkien http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=194 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Job<span> 27:8 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=196 To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=197 The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. <br /> <br /> -Gaylord Nelson, former governor of Wisconsin, co-founder of <span class="it">Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=198 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=199 Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. <br /> <br /> -Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic novelist and humorist http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=200 Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=201 Your descendants shall gather your fruits. <br /> <br /> -Virgil http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=202 A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world. <br /> <br /> -Shakyamuni http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=203 Industrialized, chemical-intensive agriculture and our globalized system of distributing food and fiber are literally destroying the earth, driving two billion farmers off the land, and producing a product which is increasingly contaminated. That's why the wave of the future is organic and sustainable, not GMO. <br /> <br /> -Ronnie Cummins, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.org">Organic Consumers Association<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=204 I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow. <br /> <br /> -Dr. George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=205 Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. <br /> <br /> -Li Zhaoxing, Ambassador, China http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=206 The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. <br /> <br /> -Cicero http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=207 The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. <br /> <br /> -President Lyndon Baines Johnson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=208 Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=209 All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day-to-day lives.... Indoor air pollution is one risk that you can do something about. <br /> <br /> -US EPA http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=210 An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs produced in this country are used for nontherapeutic purposes such as accelerating animal growth and compensating for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on 'factory farms.' This translates to ... almost eight times the amount given to humans to treat disease. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.ucsusa.org">Union of Concerned Scientists<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=211 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=212 We—human beings—are part of 'biodiversity.' We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us. <br /> <br /> -Darrell Merrell, heirloom vegetable farmer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=213 We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself. <br /> <br /> -Father Thomas Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=214 Each one [of the Earth's 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem. It's like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred? <br /> <br /> -Scott Black, <a href="http:www.xerces.org">Xerces Society<a>, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=215 We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment? <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, author <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.comamazonbookssilent-spring-rachel-carson-pb.htm">Silent Spring<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=216 One in six Americans lives within a mile of a major toxic waste site. <br /> <br /> -Phil Clapp, President <a href="http:www.net.org">National Environmental Trust<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=217 For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time... <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, author <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.comamazonbookssilent-spring-rachel-carson-pb.htm">Silent Spring<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=218 Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Ren&#233; Dubos, as quoted by Rachel Carson in <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.comamazonbookssilent-spring-rachel-carson-pb.htm">Silent Spring<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=219 There are thousands of different chemicals in the environment that may cause adverse human health effects. Little is known about the toxicological properties of most of these chemicals... <br /> <br /> -US EPA, <span class="it">Unfinished Business: A Comparative Assessment of Environmental Problems<span>, 1987 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=220 Despite progress, lead poisoning remains one of the top childhood environmental health problems today. Without further action, over the coming decades large numbers of young children may be exposed to lead in amounts that could impair their ability to learn and to reach their full potential. <br /> <br /> -President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, 2000 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=221 Children between ages one and three are at the greatest risk [of lead poisoning] because of normal hand-to-mouth activity and the increase in mobility during their second and third years, which make lead hazards more accessible to them. <br /> <br /> -President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, 2000 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=222 The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society focus most of their resources on research and treatment rather than on cancer prevention. By talking as if the cure is around the corner and their "war on cancer" is being won, when certain cancer rates—notably breast cancer and lung cancer among women and malignant melanoma—are on the rise, they divert attention from strict regulation of industry and minimizing people's exposure to carcinogens. <br /> <br /> -H. Patricia Hynes, <span class="it">The Recurring Silent Spring<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=223 I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. <br /> <br /> -President Abraham Lincoln, 1864 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=224 Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. <br /> <br /> -Cree Prophecy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=225 Those who develop the technologies, who promote them and stand to profit most from them, are not those who suffer their risks. The analysis of technologies is biased toward their use because the technology promoters generally lack the expertise and the incentive to analyze the risks of the technologies for human health and the environment. <br /> <br /> -H. Patricia Hynes, <span class="it">The Recurring Silent Spring<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=226 n the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">America's Living Oceans<span>, Pew Oceans Report, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=227 Good house keeping practices in industries can reduce 30% of waste and thereby 30% of the cost of waste management. <br /> <br /> -Sumith Pilapitiya http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=228 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=229 I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation's history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us. Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.... <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., <span class="it">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence<span>, 4 April 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=303 The need for tax shifting—lowering income taxes while raising taxes on environmentally destructive activities—in order to get the market to tell the truth has been widely endorsed by economists.... The Economist [magazine] has recognized the advantage of environmental tax shifting and endorses it strongly: 'On environmental grounds, never mind energy security, America taxes gasoline too lightly. Better than a one-off increase, a politically more feasible idea, and desirable in its own terms, would be a long-term plan to shift taxes from incomes to emissions of carbon. <br /> <br /> -Lester Brown, <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.com200601-24environmental-disaster-article.htm#betterplanetitem">Plan B 2.0<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=232 If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn. If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=233 Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment—that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption—and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities. <br /> <br /> -Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, author <span class="it">Power to the People<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=234 First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant! <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, <span class="it">Paradise (To Be) Regained<span>, 1843 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=235 The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we being to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society. <br /> <br /> -Hazel Henderson on ENN Radio http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=236 The amount of electricity that has been saved [by adopting refrigerator efficiency rules in the US]—in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is [only] a moral virtue ... and that you need [increased] supply like ANWR—is two ANWRs worth of energy. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Schneider, Stanford University climatologist, advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on greenhouse emissions http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=237 The small fisherman ... is the one that is suffering. It's the large corporations and their big draggers and trawlers and long-liners that are destroying the oceans. We hear all this talk that it's the conservationists that are putting the poor fishermen out of work, but what we never hear about is, for example, that the Norwegian drag-trawler fleet went down the coast of India and took everything, and as a result, one million Indian fishermen are out of work and those fishing communities are totally devastated. That's not a story you see in the New York Times... The biggest loss of [fishing] jobs is from these corporations and heavy-gear technologies, which are destroying the fish. <br /> <br /> -Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Society http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=238 Food is power. Are you in control of yours? <br /> <br /> -John Jeavons, <a href="http:www.growbiointensive.org">Ecology Action<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=239 Personally, I would drink hot cocoa in the morning, green tea in the afternoon, and a glass of red wine in the evening. That's a good combination <br /> <br /> -Chang Y. Lee, Cornell University food scientist on how to get a diverse array of antioxidants from your beverages http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=240 Food is our common ground, a universal experience. <br /> <br /> -James Beard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=241 Those concerned with the fight against disease know that our bodies are designed to overcome disease processes before they become established. Our systems are readily disrupted by toxins and an absence of sufficient quantities of nutrients. <br /> <br /> -Nutritional Cancer Therapy Trust http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=242 The burden of food-related ill health measured in terms of mortality and morbidity is similar to that attributable to smoking.... The vast majority of the burden is attributable to unhealthy diets rather than to food-borne diseases. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=243 True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.drweil.com">Dr. Andrew Weil<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=244 You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon [rainforest] disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop—or really even decrease—deforestation. <br /> <br /> -Patrick Symmes, <span class="it">Outside Magazine<span>, interviewed on <a href="http:www.loe.orgshowsshows.htm?programID=05-P13-00008">Living on Earth<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=245 A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. <br /> <br /> -Hal Borland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=246 It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees... <br /> <br /> -Murray Morgan, <span class="it">The Last Wilderness<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=247 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. <br /> <br /> -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=248 Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=249 There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. <br /> <br /> -Minnie Aumonier http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=250 For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=251 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=252 The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Bill Mollison, quoted in <span class="it">Gardening for the Future of The Earth<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=253 Our choices at all levels—individual, community, corporate and government—affect nature. And they affect us. <br /> <br /> -David Suzuki, <a href="http:www.davidsuzuki.org">Suzuki Foundation<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=254 Considering the whole span of earthly time... Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=255 We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=256 Space travel has given us a new appreciation for the Earth. We realize that the Earth is special. We've seen it from afar. We realize that the Earth is the only natural home for man we know of, and that we had better protect it. <br /> <br /> -James Erwin, U.S. astronaut http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=257 The consensus is that the threat to our health and security comes [not from natural resource depletion but rather] from the byproducts of production and consumption of non-renewable resources. <br /> <br /> -Stephen D'Esposito, President <a href="http:www.earthworksaction.org">EarthworksMineral Policy Center<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=258 The fundamental principles of ecology govern our lives wherever we live, and ... we must wake up to this fact or be lost. <br /> <br /> -Karin Sheldon, environmental lawyer, 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=259 Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations. <br /> <br /> -Sigmund Jahn, German cosmonaut http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=260 True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. <br /> <br /> -Seneca, Ancient Roman writer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=261 What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows. <br /> <br /> -Alexandra Stoddard, author, interior designer, and philosopher of contemporary living http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=262 Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Jonas Salk, American physician and microbiologist, 1914-95 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=263 The key is to live simply. <br /> <br /> -Ed Begley, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=264 Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate.... It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer. The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.agu.org">American Geophysical Union<a>, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=265 We know the science, we see the threat, and we know the time for action is now. <br /> <br /> -Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-California http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=266 It's very important to understand that climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. Climate change is THE issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues. <br /> <br /> -Ross Gelbspan, <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.comamazonbooksgboiling-point-ross-gelbspan.htm">Boiling Point<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=267 In a way, global climate change is for the birds. On one side of the aviary, we have Chicken Little, telling us the sky is falling; on the other side, the ostrich, his head deep in the sand. Scientists have concluded that the ostrich is in denial: Significant climate change is occurring... <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Consumer Reports<span>, September 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=268 Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman <a href="http:www.ipcc.ch">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=269 The good news is we know what to do. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. And as they become available and become more affordable when produced in scale, they will make it easier to respond. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=270 The haphazard and negligent agency regulation of biotechnology has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. Unsuspecting consumers by the tens of millions are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.centerforfoodsafety.org">Center for Food Safety<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=271 US academic institutions are being 'bought' (via funding) by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. <br /> <br /> -Ignacio Chapela, plant geneticist, in an interview with the <span class="it">UK Guardian<span> newspaper http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=272 Audacious at trying out everything, men rush Headlong into the things that have been forbidden. <br /> <br /> -Virgil http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=273 I think that the 10-year experiment with genetically engineered foods and genetically engineered animals and drugs is nearly over. We're going to look back at a certain point and say, 'Oh my god, we wasted an entire decade fighting about this when the debate should have been about chemical-intensive agriculture vs. organic agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Ronnie Cummins, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.org">Organic Consumers Association<a>, commenting on Monstanto's decision not to release its GM wheat due to consumer and farmer resistance http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=274 To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevelt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=275 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. <br /> <br /> -Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=276 Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=277 When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Bobby McLeod (Koori activist, aboriginal) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=278 People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, But when the darkness sets in, Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br /> <br /> -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=279 Toxic chemicals in the home can be eliminated simply by making thoughtful choices in the supermarket after educating oneself about where the hazards are in common consumer products. <br /> <br /> -Gary A. Davis and Em Turner, authors <span class="it">Safe Substitutes at Home: Non-Toxic Household Products<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=280 The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. <br /> <br /> -Edward Clarke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=281 Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. <br /> <br /> -Stewart L. Udall http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=282 I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevelt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=283 Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. <br /> <br /> -Walt Whitman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=284 It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. <br /> <br /> -President Jimmy Carter http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=285 Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=286 The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside. <br /> <br /> -James Watkins, Admiral (Retired) U.S. Navy, head of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=287 However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat. <br /> <br /> -Jacques Cousteau, <span class="it">National Geographic<span>, 1981 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=288 About half of the nation's waters surveyed by states do not adequately support aquatic life because of excess nutrients... Nutrients have also been associated with both the large hypoxia zone in the gulf of Mexico ... and the Pfisteria-induced fish kills and human health problems in the coastal waters of several East Coast and Gulf states. <br /> <br /> -EPA Draft Report on the Environment, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=289 To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. <br /> <br /> -Gertrude Ederle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=290 When you look at an apple, some people would say the non-organic apple is cheaper than the organic apple. But when you factor in what you're receiving in terms of vitamins, minerals, etc., the organic apple—on that basis—is cheaper than the non-organic apple. <br /> <br /> -Jerry Kay, on Beyond Organic http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=291 There are 70 pesticides that are listed as known or probable carcinogens, based on animal testing. Of those 70, 44 are in use today, and 23 are used on our food. <br /> <br /> -Gina Solomon, specialist in internal medicine, 2001 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=292 People are applying the precautionary principle to their own lives by purchasing food that has not been produced by industrial methods. From the simple stance of hazard avoidance, organically produced food is the best option that we have. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Vyvyan Howard, toxico-pathologist at the University of Liverpool, UK http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=293 Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible. <br /> <br /> -Jamie Oliver, UK celebrity chef, in <span class="it">BBC Good Food<span> magazine http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=295 Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes. <br /> <br /> -Charles M. Benbrook http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=296 The body of evidence in scientific literature shows that pesticide exposure can adversely affect a child's neurological, respiratory, immune, and endocrine system, even at low levels. Several pesticides, such as pyrethrins and pyrethroids, organophosphates and carbamates, are also known to cause or exacerbate asthma symptoms. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.beyondpesticides.org">Beyond Pesticides<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=297 Until we have a more complete understanding of pesticide toxicity, the benefit of the doubt should be awarded to protecting the environment, the worker, and the consumer—this precautionary approach is necessary because the data on risk to human health from exposure to pesticides are incomplete. <br /> <br /> -British Medical Association http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=298 We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there's even more of a delay. No single compound will do this. <br /> <br /> -Tyrone Hayes, biologist, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=299 The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little—recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world—the very nature of its life. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=300 Each Valentine's day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less-than-rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Environmental Health Perspectives<span>, Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=301 Insect populations ... possess considerable genetic diversity and a great potential for adaptation to different or changing environments. This makes them an especially formidable pest of crops, able to adapt to new plant varieties as they are developed or rapidly become resistant to insecticides. <br /> <br /> -M.P. Hoffmann, A.C. Frodsham, <span class="it">Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect Pests<span>, 1993 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=302 Local TV news across the country [is] saturated with mayhem and fluff at the expense of the broader range of issues important to our communities. TV news has become an emotional collection of the terrifying and the titillating, chosen to generate what marketing experts call 'arousal.' Arousal prepares viewers for TV news' abundant advertising but it does not inform citizens. Rather, it breeds cynicism, discourages civic participation, and promotes fearful withdrawal and passivity. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.bigmedia.org">Rocky Mountain Media Watch<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=440 If you plan for a year, plant kalo. If you plan for ten years, plant koa. If you plan for 100 years, teach the children. <br /> <br /> -Hawaiian Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=18 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. <br /> <br /> -James G. Watt, quoted in <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 8 March 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=374 Some diseases are produced by the manner of life that is followed; others by the life-giving air we breathe. (...) When a large number of people all catch the same disease at the same time, the cause must be ascribed to something common to all and which they all use; in other words to what they all breathe. In such a disease, it is obvious that individual bodily habits cannot be responsible because the malady attacks one after another, young and old, men and women alike, those who drink their wine neat and those who drink only water; whose who eat barley-cake as well as those who live on bread, those who take a lot of exercise and those who take but little. The régime cannot therefore be responsible where people who live very different lives catch the same disease. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=154 And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. <br /> <br /> -William Shakespeare http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=229 I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.<br > <br > The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.<br > <br > Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation's history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.<br > <br > Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.... <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., <span class="it">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence<span>, 4 April 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=252 The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Bill Mollison, quoted in <span class="it">Gardening for the Future of The Earth<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=91 Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! <br /> <br /> -Don A. Dillman, <span class="it">Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<span>, January 1977 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=432 Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there. <br /> <br /> -William Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991; <span class="it">The Sacred Tree<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=57 We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=49 Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=353 An honest man is always a child. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=29 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. <br /> <br /> -Bill Vaughn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=436 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=348 In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=317 People, not developers, built cities and towns. <br /> <br /> -Richard Domikis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=235 The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we being to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society. <br /> <br /> -Hazel Henderson on ENN Radio http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=148 In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Changing Times<span> magazine http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=269 The good news is we know what to do. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. And as they become available and become more affordable when produced in scale, they will make it easier to respond. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=310 Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. <br /> <br /> -Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay advocate http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=299 The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little—recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world—the very nature of its life. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=85 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. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," <span class="it">The Panda's Thumb<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=156 "....I had read the accounts in history and heard jokes from my Australian friends referring to Aborigines eating people, and even eating their own babies. Was that true, I asked? Yes. Since the beginning of time, humans have experimented with everything. Even here on this continent, it was not possible to keep people from it. There had been Aboriginal tribes with kings, with female rulers, some who stole people away from another group, and some who ate human flesh. Mutants kill and walk away, leaving the body for disposal. The cannibals killed and used the carcass to nourish life. One group's purpose is neither better nor worse than the other. Killing a human, regardless if it's for protection, revenge, convenience, or food, is all the same. Not to kill another is what differentiates Real People from mutated human creatures.<br > <br > 'There is not morality in war,' they said. 'But cannibals never killed more in one than they could eat. In your wars, thousands are killed in a few minutes. Perhaps it might be worth suggesting to your leaders that both parties in your war agree to five minutes of combat. Then let all the parents come to the battlefield and collect the pieces and parts of their children, take them home and mourn and bury them. After that is over, another five minutes of battle might or might not be agreed upon. It is difficult to make sense of senselessness. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=241 Those concerned with the fight against disease know that our bodies are designed to overcome disease processes before they become established. Our systems are readily disrupted by toxins and an absence of sufficient quantities of nutrients. <br /> <br /> -Nutritional Cancer Therapy Trust http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=333 Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. <br /> <br /> -Oscar Romero, Martyred Archbishop of EI Salvador http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=183 What You Get When You Hook Up With The Power Company:<br > <br > 1. Never ending source of pollution from the production of the electricity at the source<br > 2. Mining of a finite resource<br > 3. Visual pollution around the land<br > 4. High voltage towers and cabling cris- crossing the landscape<br > 5. Support of a local monopoly<br > 6. Ever increasing price for electricity<br > 7. Crappy energy consuming buildings<br > 8. Power failures, blackouts, and poor quality power <br /> <br /> -Gary Dorn, Permaculturist, Australia http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=363 I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=440 If you plan for a year, plant kalo. If you plan for ten years, plant koa. If you plan for 100 years, teach the children. <br /> <br /> -Hawaiian Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=307 Pollution often disappears when we switch to renewable resources. <br /> <br /> -David Morris, <span class="it">Utne Reader<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=382 Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of each of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality. Lastly, the effect of water on health must not be forgotten. Just as it varies in taste and when weighed, so does its effect on the body vary as well. When, therefore, a physician comes to a district previously unknown to him, he should consider both its situation and its aspects to the winds. The effect of any town upon the health of its population varies according as it faces north or south, east or west. This is of the greatest importance. Similarly, the nature of the water supply must be considered; is it marshy and soft, hard as it is when it flows from high and rocky ground, or salty with a hardness which is permanent? Then think of the soil, whether it be bare and waterless or thickly covered with vegetation and well-watered; whether in a hollow and stiftling, or exposed and cold. Lastly consider the life of the inhabitants themselves; are they heavy drinkers and eaters and consequently unable to stand fatigue or, being fond of work and exercise, eat wisely but drink sparely? <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=286 The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside. <br /> <br /> -James Watkins, Admiral (Retired) U.S. Navy, head of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=286 The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside. <br /> <br /> -James Watkins, Admiral (Retired) U.S. Navy, head of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=424 Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. <br /> <br /> -Astrid Alauda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=157 There was no waste. Everything was recycled back into nature and back into the earth. This was one picnic that left no trash; in fact, you could barely tell we had ever camped and eaten at any of our sites. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=152 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,<br > There is a rapture on the lonely shore,<br > There is society, where none intrudes,<br > By the deep sea, and music in its roar:<br > I love not man the less, but Nature more. <br /> <br /> -George Gordon, Lord Byron, <span class="it">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=420 Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=77 Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. <br /> <br /> -Dave Foreman, <span class="it">Harper's<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=335 A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. <br /> <br /> -James Madison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=382 Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of each of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality. Lastly, the effect of water on health must not be forgotten. Just as it varies in taste and when weighed, so does its effect on the body vary as well. When, therefore, a physician comes to a district previously unknown to him, he should consider both its situation and its aspects to the winds. The effect of any town upon the health of its population varies according as it faces north or south, east or west. This is of the greatest importance. Similarly, the nature of the water supply must be considered; is it marshy and soft, hard as it is when it flows from high and rocky ground, or salty with a hardness which is permanent? Then think of the soil, whether it be bare and waterless or thickly covered with vegetation and well-watered; whether in a hollow and stiftling, or exposed and cold. Lastly consider the life of the inhabitants themselves; are they heavy drinkers and eaters and consequently unable to stand fatigue or, being fond of work and exercise, eat wisely but drink sparely? <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=150 Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=334 Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular—but one must take it simply because it is right. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=212 We—human beings—are part of 'biodiversity.' We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us. <br /> <br /> -Darrell Merrell, heirloom vegetable farmer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=381 Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=400 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=157 There was no waste. Everything was recycled back into nature and back into the earth. This was one picnic that left no trash; in fact, you could barely tell we had ever camped and eaten at any of our sites. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=230 The need for tax shifting—lowering income taxes while raising taxes on environmentally destructive activities—in order to get the market to tell the truth has been widely endorsed by economists.... The Economist [magazine] has recognized the advantage of environmental tax shifting and endorses it strongly: 'On environmental grounds, never mind energy security, America taxes gasoline too lightly. Better than a one-off increase, a politically more feasible idea, and desirable in its own terms, would be a long-term plan to shift taxes from incomes to emissions of carbon. <br /> <br /> -Lester Brown, <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.com200601-24environmental-disaster-article.htm#betterplanetitem">Plan B 2.0<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=169 "...In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground—the unborn of the future Nation." <br /> <br /> -From The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (<span class="it">The Great Binding Law<span>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=313 What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. <br /> <br /> -Hal Boyle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=438 Peace.<br > it does not mean to be in a place where this is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=288 About half of the nation's waters surveyed by states do not adequately support aquatic life because of excess nutrients... Nutrients have also been associated with both the large hypoxia zone in the gulf of Mexico ... and the Pfisteria-induced fish kills and human health problems in the coastal waters of several East Coast and Gulf states. <br /> <br /> -EPA Draft Report on the Environment, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=131 Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources. <br /> <br /> -W.H. Carothers http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=289 To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. <br /> <br /> -Gertrude Ederle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=31 If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. <br /> <br /> -Jacques Barzun, <span class="it">The House of Intellect<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=31 If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. <br /> <br /> -Jacques Barzun, <span class="it">The House of Intellect<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=230 The need for tax shifting—lowering income taxes while raising taxes on environmentally destructive activities—in order to get the market to tell the truth has been widely endorsed by economists.... The Economist [magazine] has recognized the advantage of environmental tax shifting and endorses it strongly: 'On environmental grounds, never mind energy security, America taxes gasoline too lightly. Better than a one-off increase, a politically more feasible idea, and desirable in its own terms, would be a long-term plan to shift taxes from incomes to emissions of carbon. <br /> <br /> -Lester Brown, <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.com200601-24environmental-disaster-article.htm#betterplanetitem">Plan B 2.0<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=295 Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes. <br /> <br /> -Charles M. Benbrook http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=297 Until we have a more complete understanding of pesticide toxicity, the benefit of the doubt should be awarded to protecting the environment, the worker, and the consumer—this precautionary approach is necessary because the data on risk to human health from exposure to pesticides are incomplete. <br /> <br /> -British Medical Association http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=56 It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. <br /> <br /> -Ansel Adams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=343 A garden always gives back more than it receives. <br /> <br /> -Mara Beamish http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=90 In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. <br /> <br /> -Richard Wilkinson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=214 Each one [of the Earth's 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem. It's like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred? <br /> <br /> -Scott Black, <a href="http:www.xerces.org">Xerces Society<a>, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=370 The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=175 Interview with Mahatma Gandhi:<br > <br > Reporter: "What do you think of Western civilization"<br > Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=424 Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. <br /> <br /> -Astrid Alauda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=219 There are thousands of different chemicals in the environment that may cause adverse human health effects. Little is known about the toxicological properties of most of these chemicals... <br /> <br /> -US EPA, <span class="it">Unfinished Business: A Comparative Assessment of Environmental Problems<span>, 1987 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=415 If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=310 Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. <br /> <br /> -Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay advocate http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=363 I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=320 The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world. <br /> <br /> -James M. Fitch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=439 Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and Hate leads to suffering. <br /> <br /> -Yoda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=208 Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=2 The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. <br /> <br /> -Havelock Ellis, <span class="it">The Dance of Life<span>, 1923 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=434 Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... It comes only through the tireless efforts and passionate concern of dedicated individuals .... This is no time for apathy nor complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=457 More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=450 Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=22 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. <br /> <br /> -Marya Mannes, <span class="it">More in Anger<span>, 1958 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=245 A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. <br /> <br /> -Hal Borland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=385 When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. <br /> <br /> -Jimi Hendrix http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=342 Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. <br /> <br /> -Lou Erickson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=331 No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. <br /> <br /> -Kofi Annan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=92 We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Arnold Toynbee http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=234 First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant! <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, <span class="it">Paradise (To Be) Regained<span>, 1843 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=47 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? <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Reader's Digest<span>, November 1939 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=364 I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=290 When you look at an apple, some people would say the non-organic apple is cheaper than the organic apple. But when you factor in what you're receiving in terms of vitamins, minerals, etc., the organic apple—on that basis—is cheaper than the non-organic apple. <br /> <br /> -Jerry Kay, on Beyond Organic http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=264 Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate.... It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer. The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.agu.org">American Geophysical Union<a>, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=75 Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. <br /> <br /> -Stephanie Mills, ed., <span class="it">In Praise of Nature<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=126 Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Circle of the Seasons<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=429 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br > None but ourselves can free our minds.<br > Have no fear for atomic energy,<br > cause none of them can stop the time.<br > How long shall they kill our prophets,<br > While we stand aside and look? ooh!<br > Some say its just a part of it:<br > Weve got to fulfil de book. <br /> <br /> -Bob Marley, the <a href="http:www.youtube.comwatch?v=p7pAvbjChQM"><span style="it">Redemption Song<span><a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=467 Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=372 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=65 Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. <br /> <br /> -Albert Schweitzer, quoted in James Brabazon, <span class="it">Albert Schweitzer<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=386 Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. <br /> <br /> -Kahlil Gibran http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=463 Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=61 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle, 1855 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=97 The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=197 The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. <br /> <br /> -Gaylord Nelson, former governor of Wisconsin, co-founder of <span class="it">Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=72 Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? <br /> <br /> -Lane Olinghouse http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=412 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? <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Reader's Digest<span>, November 1939 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=63 You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. <br /> <br /> -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <span class="it">Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes<span>, 1755 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=139 Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. <br /> <br /> -Lewis Mumford http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=225 Those who develop the technologies, who promote them and stand to profit most from them, are not those who suffer their risks. The analysis of technologies is biased toward their use because the technology promoters generally lack the expertise and the incentive to analyze the risks of the technologies for human health and the environment. <br /> <br /> -H. Patricia Hynes, <span class="it">The Recurring Silent Spring<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=43 When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -David Orr http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=109 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. <br /> <br /> -Edward O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=396 The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,<br > The brooks for the fishers of song;<br > To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game<br > The streams and the woods belong. <br /> <br /> -Sam Walter Foss http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=113 One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. <br /> <br /> -Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=327 Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way:<br > stop participating in it. <br /> <br /> -Noam Chomsky http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=334 Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular—but one must take it simply because it is right. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=78 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. <br /> <br /> -Carl Sagan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=261 What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows. <br /> <br /> -Alexandra Stoddard, author, interior designer, and philosopher of contemporary living http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=275 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. <br /> <br /> -Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=94 Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Autumn Across America<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=20 The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., <span class="it">Loose Talk<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=7 In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. <br /> <br /> -Paul Brooks, <span class="it">The Pursuit of Wilderness<span>, 1971 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=312 Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem. <br /> <br /> -Barry Commoner, <span class="it">Orion Nature Quarterly<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=63 You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. <br /> <br /> -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <span class="it">Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes<span>, 1755 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=240 Food is our common ground, a universal experience. <br /> <br /> -James Beard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=211 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=5 It wasn't the <span class="it">Exxon Valdez<span> captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. <br /> <br /> -Greenpeace advertisement, <span class="it">New York Times<span>, 25 February 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=80 Man maketh a death which Nature never made. <br /> <br /> -Edward Young http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=445 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=378 The factors which enable us to distinguish between diseases are as follows: First we must consider the nature of man in general and of each individual and the characteristics of each disease. Then we must consider the patient, what food is given to him and who gives it - for this may take it easier for him to take or more difficult - the conditions of climate and locality both in general and in particular, the patient's customs, mode of life, pursuits and age. Then we must consider his speech, his mannerisms, his silences, his thoughts, his habits of sleep or wakefulness and his dreams, their nature and time. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=336 Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being. <br /> <br /> -David Hobson, The Mad Gardener http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=398 It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. <br /> <br /> -Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=70 The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. <br /> <br /> -Loudon Wainwright http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=373 Wisdom begins in wonder. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=315 No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's waterways, that belong to all the people, as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one state, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people. <br /> <br /> -President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon signing the <span class="it">Clean Water Act of 1965<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=66 Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. <br /> <br /> -Ian McHarg http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=18 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. <br /> <br /> -James G. Watt, quoted in <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 8 March 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=345 What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. <br /> <br /> -Will Rogers http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=414 I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=324 When drinking water, remember its source. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=69 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Luther Standing Bear http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=363 I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=218 Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Ren&#233; Dubos, as quoted by Rachel Carson in <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.comamazonbookssilent-spring-rachel-carson-pb.htm">Silent Spring<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=162 What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=351 A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=14 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller, <span class="it">Gnomologia<span>, 1732 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=466 It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=458 Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. <br /> <br /> -Norman Borlaug http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=233 Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment—that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption—and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities. <br /> <br /> -Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, author <span class="it">Power to the People<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=358 Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=171 In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. <br /> <br /> -John C. Sawhill, former PresidentCEO of <a href="http:nature.org">The Nature Conservancy<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=452 We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=443 We have got to take back our communities! <br /> <br /> -Bob Finn, December 2008 Christmas Party http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=392 In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Life<span>, 22 December 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=83 It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? <br /> <br /> -Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, <span class="it">Improving Risk Communication<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=283 Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. <br /> <br /> -Walt Whitman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=433 Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. <br /> <br /> -Arundhati Roy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=160 When the sun rises, I go to work.<br > When the sun goes down, I take my rest.<br > I dig the well from which I drink,<br > I farm the soil that yields my food.<br > I share creation, Kings can do no more. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb, 2500 B.C. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=123 The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey;<br > Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. <br /> <br /> -Kenneth E. Boulding, "The Ballad of Ecological Awareness," in M. Taghi Farvar and John P. Milton, eds., <span class="it">The Careless Technology<span>, 1972 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=92 We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Arnold Toynbee http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=260 True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. <br /> <br /> -Seneca, Ancient Roman writer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=422 Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. <br /> <br /> -Sara Ebenreck, <span class="it">American Forests<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=450 Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=252 The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Bill Mollison, quoted in <span class="it">Gardening for the Future of The Earth<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=126 Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Circle of the Seasons<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=172 Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Lorax<span> by Dr. Suess http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=377 To know the cause of a disease and to understand the use of the various methods by which disease may be prevented amounts to the same thing in effect as being able to cure the malady. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=108 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. <br /> <br /> -William O. Douglas, <span class="it">Go East, Young Man<span>, 1974 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=159 I asked them if they had ever heard the name Jesus. 'Certainly,' I was told. 'The missionaries taught: Jesus is the Son of God. Our eldest brother. Divine Oneness in human form. He receives the greatest veneration. Oneness came to the earth many years ago to tell the Mutants how to live, what they had forgotten. Jesus did not come to the Real People tribe. He certainly could have, we were right here, but it wasn't our message. It didn't apply to us because we have not forgotten. We were already living His Truth. To us,' they continued, 'Oneness is not a thing. Mutants seem addicted to form. They can't accept anything invisible and without a shape. God, Jesus, Oneness for us is not an essence that surrounds things or is present inside of things—it is everything! <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=302 Local TV news across the country [is] saturated with mayhem and fluff at the expense of the broader range of issues important to our communities. TV news has become an emotional collection of the terrifying and the titillating, chosen to generate what marketing experts call 'arousal.' Arousal prepares viewers for TV news' abundant advertising but it does not inform citizens. Rather, it breeds cynicism, discourages civic participation, and promotes fearful withdrawal and passivity. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.bigmedia.org">Rocky Mountain Media Watch<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=240 Food is our common ground, a universal experience. <br /> <br /> -James Beard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=308 Waste equals food. <br /> <br /> -William McDonough, sustainable designer and architect http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=183 What You Get When You Hook Up With The Power Company:<br > <br > 1. Never ending source of pollution from the production of the electricity at the source<br > 2. Mining of a finite resource<br > 3. Visual pollution around the land<br > 4. High voltage towers and cabling cris- crossing the landscape<br > 5. Support of a local monopoly<br > 6. Ever increasing price for electricity<br > 7. Crappy energy consuming buildings<br > 8. Power failures, blackouts, and poor quality power <br /> <br /> -Gary Dorn, Permaculturist, Australia http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=437 The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, after all our most pleasing responsibility.<br > <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=441 "An Apple A Day (Nursery Rhyme)"<br > <br > An apple a day<br > Sends the doctor away<br > Apple in the morning<br > Doctor's warning<br > Roast apple at night<br > Starves the doctor outright<br > Eat an apple going to bed<br > Knock the doctor on the head<br > Three each day, seven days a week Ruddy apple, ruddy cheek <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=24 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. <br /> <br /> -David Wann, <span class="it">Buzzworm<span>, November 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=447 When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=428 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. <br /> <br /> -Frederick Douglas http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=68 The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Jones, <span class="it">The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=415 If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=428 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. <br /> <br /> -Frederick Douglas http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=282 I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevelt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=318 Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe. <br /> <br /> -E.O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=66 Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. <br /> <br /> -Ian McHarg http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=24 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. <br /> <br /> -David Wann, <span class="it">Buzzworm<span>, November 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=182 All truth passes through 3 stages.<br > First, it is ridiculed.<br > Second, it is violently opposed.<br > Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. <br /> <br /> -Arthur Schopenhauer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=224 Only when the last tree has been cut down,<br > Only when the last river has been poisoned,<br > Only when the last fish has been caught,<br > Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. <br /> <br /> -Cree Prophecy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=369 One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=334 Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular—but one must take it simply because it is right. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=204 I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow. <br /> <br /> -Dr. George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=377 To know the cause of a disease and to understand the use of the various methods by which disease may be prevented amounts to the same thing in effect as being able to cure the malady. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=313 What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. <br /> <br /> -Hal Boyle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=301 Insect populations ... possess considerable genetic diversity and a great potential for adaptation to different or changing environments. This makes them an especially formidable pest of crops, able to adapt to new plant varieties as they are developed or rapidly become resistant to insecticides. <br /> <br /> -M.P. Hoffmann, A.C. Frodsham, <span class="it">Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect Pests<span>, 1993 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=280 The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. <br /> <br /> -Edward Clarke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=189 The causes that lie behind much sickness and human suffering are short-sightedness and greed. Health for all can be achieved only through the organized demand by people for greater equality in terms of land, water, services, and basic rights. More power to the people! <br /> <br /> -Dr. David Werner http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=60 For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. <br /> <br /> -Richard P. Feynman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=364 I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=122 The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. <br /> <br /> -E.F. Schumacher, <span class="it">Small is Beautiful<span>, 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=177 Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=409 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<br > from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above<br > 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. <br /> <br /> -Jimmy Buffet, <span class="it">Mother Earth News<span> March-April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=285 Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=375 A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession and learn how to treat his illnesses by his own judgement. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=392 In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Life<span>, 22 December 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=169 "...In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground—the unborn of the future Nation." <br /> <br /> -From The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (<span class="it">The Great Binding Law<span>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=438 Peace.<br > it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=124 There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. <br /> <br /> -Brooke Medicine Eagle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=179 I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Edison, 1931 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=138 We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Jeremy Rifkin, <span class="it">World Press Review<span>, 30 December 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=45 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. <br /> <br /> -Robert Lynd, <span class="it">The Blue Lion and Other Essays<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=28 The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. <br /> <br /> -Paul A. Samuelson, <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 12 June 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=203 Industrialized, chemical-intensive agriculture and our globalized system of distributing food and fiber are literally destroying the earth, driving two billion farmers off the land, and producing a product which is increasingly contaminated. That's why the wave of the future is organic and sustainable, not GMO. <br /> <br /> -Ronnie Cummins, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.org">Organic Consumers Association<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=40 A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=235 The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we being to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society. <br /> <br /> -Hazel Henderson on ENN Radio http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=90 In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. <br /> <br /> -Richard Wilkinson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=419 It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=109 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. <br /> <br /> -Edward O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=180 Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=224 Only when the last tree has been cut down,<br > Only when the last river has been poisoned,<br > Only when the last fish has been caught,<br > Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. <br /> <br /> -Cree Prophecy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=144 You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem. <br /> <br /> -William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, <span class="it">New York Times<span>, 30 November 1988 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=168 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=442 At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. <br /> <br /> -Che Guevara http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=374 Some diseases are produced by the manner of life that is followed; others by the life-giving air we breathe. (...) When a large number of people all catch the same disease at the same time, the cause must be ascribed to something common to all and which they all use; in other words to what they all breathe. In such a disease, it is obvious that individual bodily habits cannot be responsible because the malady attacks one after another, young and old, men and women alike, those who drink their wine neat and those who drink only water; whose who eat barley-cake as well as those who live on bread, those who take a lot of exercise and those who take but little. The régime cannot therefore be responsible where people who live very different lives catch the same disease. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=56 It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. <br /> <br /> -Ansel Adams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=228 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=451 It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=300 Each Valentine's day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less-than-rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Environmental Health Perspectives<span>, Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=128 To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=297 Until we have a more complete understanding of pesticide toxicity, the benefit of the doubt should be awarded to protecting the environment, the worker, and the consumer—this precautionary approach is necessary because the data on risk to human health from exposure to pesticides are incomplete. <br /> <br /> -British Medical Association http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=80 Man maketh a death which Nature never made. <br /> <br /> -Edward Young http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=350 Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=194 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Job<span> 27:8 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=192 All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. <br /> <br /> -Edmund Burke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=339 Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy. <br /> <br /> -Richard W. Langer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=123 The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey;<br > Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. <br /> <br /> -Kenneth E. Boulding, "The Ballad of Ecological Awareness," in M. Taghi Farvar and John P. Milton, eds., <span class="it">The Careless Technology<span>, 1972 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=211 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=107 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=300 Each Valentine's day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less-than-rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Environmental Health Perspectives<span>, Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=386 Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. <br /> <br /> -Kahlil Gibran http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=162 What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=173 Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=94 Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Autumn Across America<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=92 We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Arnold Toynbee http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=191 Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. <br /> <br /> -John McConnell, founder of <span class="it">International Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=128 To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=423 If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. <br /> <br /> -Stephan Girard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=43 When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -David Orr http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=272 Audacious at trying out everything, men rush<br > Headlong into the things that have been forbidden. <br /> <br /> -Virgil http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=115 Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. <br /> <br /> -Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=267 In a way, global climate change is for the birds. On one side of the aviary, we have Chicken Little, telling us the sky is falling; on the other side, the ostrich, his head deep in the sand. Scientists have concluded that the ostrich is in denial: Significant climate change is occurring... <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Consumer Reports<span>, September 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=64 Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. <br /> <br /> -David Gerrold http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=111 The human race will be the cancer of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Julian Huxley, attributed http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=171 In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. <br /> <br /> -John C. Sawhill, former PresidentCEO of <a href="http:nature.org">The Nature Conservancy<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=256 Space travel has given us a new appreciation for the Earth. We realize that the Earth is special. We've seen it from afar. We realize that the Earth is the only natural home for man we know of, and that we had better protect it. <br /> <br /> -James Erwin, U.S. astronaut http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=129 Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. <br /> <br /> -J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, <span class="it">State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade<span>, 1984 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=448 There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=253 Our choices at all levels—individual, community, corporate and government—affect nature. And they affect us. <br /> <br /> -David Suzuki, <a href="http:www.davidsuzuki.org">Suzuki Foundation<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=34 Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. <br /> <br /> -Pliny the Elder, <span class="it">The Natural History<span>, translated by Philemon Holland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=380 It is well known that a low diet of food and drink is on the whole a surer way to health than violent changes from one diet to another. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=177 Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=424 Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. <br /> <br /> -Astrid Alauda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=368 It is not living that matters, but living rightly. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=375 A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession and learn how to treat his illnesses by his own judgement. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=389 If one way be better than another,<br > that you may be sure is Nature's way. <br /> <br /> -Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=159 I asked them if they had ever heard the name Jesus. 'Certainly,' I was told. 'The missionaries taught: Jesus is the Son of God. Our eldest brother. Divine Oneness in human form. He receives the greatest veneration. Oneness came to the earth many years ago to tell the Mutants how to live, what they had forgotten. Jesus did not come to the Real People tribe. He certainly could have, we were right here, but it wasn't our message. It didn't apply to us because we have not forgotten. We were already living His Truth. To us,' they continued, 'Oneness is not a thing. Mutants seem addicted to form. They can't accept anything invisible and without a shape. God, Jesus, Oneness for us is not an essence that surrounds things or is present inside of things—it is everything! <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=329 Each of us who is female, nonwhite, or without land would have been guaranteed in 1776 the same voting rights as a horse. We owe a precious debt to Americans before us who refused to believe patriotism just meant going with the crowd. <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=338 .... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first. <br /> <br /> -Marion Cran, If I Were Beginning Again http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=458 Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. <br /> <br /> -Norman Borlaug http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=67 Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. <br /> <br /> -Charles A. Lindbergh, <span class="it">Reader's Digest<span>, July 1972 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=55 Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. <br /> <br /> -Richard Bach http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=238 Food is power. Are you in control of yours? <br /> <br /> -John Jeavons, <a href="http:www.growbiointensive.org">Ecology Action<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=243 True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.drweil.com">Dr. Andrew Weil<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=77 Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. <br /> <br /> -Dave Foreman, <span class="it">Harper's<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=160 When the sun rises, I go to work.<br > When the sun goes down, I take my rest.<br > I dig the well from which I drink,<br > I farm the soil that yields my food.<br > I share creation, Kings can do no more. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb, 2500 B.C. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=11 Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. <br /> <br /> -Henrik Tikkanen http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=76 How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. <br /> <br /> -Anonymous Wintu Woman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=467 Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=310 Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. <br /> <br /> -Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay advocate http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=333 Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. <br /> <br /> -Oscar Romero, Martyred Archbishop of EI Salvador http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=289 To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. <br /> <br /> -Gertrude Ederle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=44 We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. <br /> <br /> -Francis Bacon http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=388 To find the universal elements enough;<br > to find the air and the water exhilarating;<br > to be refreshed by a morning walk<br > or an evening saunter;<br > to be thrilled by the stars at night;<br > to be elated over a bird's nest<br > or a wildflower in spring<br > - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, Naturalist (1837-1921) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=167 The amount of sunshine energy that hits the surface of the Earth every minute is greater than the total amount of energy that the world's human population consumes in a year! <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Home Power Magazine<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=164 We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. <br /> <br /> -Margaret Mead http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=200 Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=104 As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." <br /> <br /> -U Thant, speech, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=2 The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. <br /> <br /> -Havelock Ellis, <span class="it">The Dance of Life<span>, 1923 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=100 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. <br /> <br /> -Anton Chekhov, <span class="it">Uncle Vanya<span>, 1897 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=208 Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=210 An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs produced in this country are used for nontherapeutic purposes such as accelerating animal growth and compensating for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on 'factory farms.' This translates to ... almost eight times the amount given to humans to treat disease. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.ucsusa.org">Union of Concerned Scientists<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=334 Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular—but one must take it simply because it is right. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=12 I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. <br /> <br /> -Darryl Cherney, quoted in <span class="it">Smithsonian<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=307 Pollution often disappears when we switch to renewable resources. <br /> <br /> -David Morris, <span class="it">Utne Reader<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=8 Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. <br /> <br /> -Quoted in <span class="it">Time<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=388 To find the universal elements enough;<br > to find the air and the water exhilarating;<br > to be refreshed by a morning walk<br > or an evening saunter;<br > to be thrilled by the stars at night;<br > to be elated over a bird's nest<br > or a wildflower in spring<br > - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, Naturalist (1837-1921) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=94 Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Autumn Across America<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=190 Whoever saves one life saves the world. <br /> <br /> -From <span class="it">The Talmud<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=25 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. <br /> <br /> -Philip Shabecoff, <span class="it">New York Times Magazine<span>, 4 June 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=52 Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. <br /> <br /> -E. Knight http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=33 The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. <br /> <br /> -Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, <span class="it">États et empires de la lune<span>, 1656 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=351 A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=59 Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? <br /> <br /> -Pierre Troubetzkoy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=191 Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. <br /> <br /> -John McConnell, founder of <span class="it">International Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=382 Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of each of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality. Lastly, the effect of water on health must not be forgotten. Just as it varies in taste and when weighed, so does its effect on the body vary as well. When, therefore, a physician comes to a district previously unknown to him, he should consider both its situation and its aspects to the winds. The effect of any town upon the health of its population varies according as it faces north or south, east or west. This is of the greatest importance. Similarly, the nature of the water supply must be considered; is it marshy and soft, hard as it is when it flows from high and rocky ground, or salty with a hardness which is permanent? Then think of the soil, whether it be bare and waterless or thickly covered with vegetation and well-watered; whether in a hollow and stiftling, or exposed and cold. Lastly consider the life of the inhabitants themselves; are they heavy drinkers and eaters and consequently unable to stand fatigue or, being fond of work and exercise, eat wisely but drink sparely? <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=347 The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=200 Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=189 The causes that lie behind much sickness and human suffering are short-sightedness and greed. Health for all can be achieved only through the organized demand by people for greater equality in terms of land, water, services, and basic rights. More power to the people! <br /> <br /> -Dr. David Werner http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=444 We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. <br /> <br /> -Aesop http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=519 Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=478 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. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=373 Wisdom begins in wonder. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=21 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. <br /> <br /> -Aldo Leopold, <span class="it">A Sand County Almanac<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=492 No nation, no people, can be free and ignorant at the same time. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=318 Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe. <br /> <br /> -E.O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=109 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. <br /> <br /> -Edward O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=185 Not to have known, as most men have not, either the mountains or the desert, is not to have known oneself. <br /> <br /> -Joseph Wood Krutch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=152 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,<br > There is a rapture on the lonely shore,<br > There is society, where none intrudes,<br > By the deep sea, and music in its roar:<br > I love not man the less, but Nature more. <br /> <br /> -George Gordon, Lord Byron, <span class="it">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=519 Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=540 The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. <br /> <br /> -Gregory Bateson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=337 A good gardener always plants 3 seeds - one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for himself. <br /> <br /> -Leo Aikman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=138 We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Jeremy Rifkin, <span class="it">World Press Review<span>, 30 December 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=135 We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. <br /> <br /> -Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=119 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle, (full text of <a href="http:www.solarhaven.orgChiefSeattle.htm">Chief Seattle's 1854 Treaty Oration<a>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=93 Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. <br /> <br /> -René Dubos, <span class="it">Mirage of Health<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=378 The factors which enable us to distinguish between diseases are as follows: First we must consider the nature of man in general and of each individual and the characteristics of each disease. Then we must consider the patient, what food is given to him and who gives it - for this may take it easier for him to take or more difficult - the conditions of climate and locality both in general and in particular, the patient's customs, mode of life, pursuits and age. Then we must consider his speech, his mannerisms, his silences, his thoughts, his habits of sleep or wakefulness and his dreams, their nature and time. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=289 To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. <br /> <br /> -Gertrude Ederle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=349 Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=473 Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. <br /> <br /> -Stewart Udall http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=489 To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=49 Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=85 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. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," <span class="it">The Panda's Thumb<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=256 Space travel has given us a new appreciation for the Earth. We realize that the Earth is special. We've seen it from afar. We realize that the Earth is the only natural home for man we know of, and that we had better protect it. <br /> <br /> -James Erwin, U.S. astronaut http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=370 The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=103 After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. <br /> <br /> -Pam Shaw http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=279 Toxic chemicals in the home can be eliminated simply by making thoughtful choices in the supermarket after educating oneself about where the hazards are in common consumer products. <br /> <br /> -Gary A. Davis and Em Turner, authors <span class="it">Safe Substitutes at Home: Non-Toxic Household Products<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=335 A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. <br /> <br /> -James Madison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=165 Becoming intoxicated with a dream gives us the passion to bring it into reality! <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=343 A garden always gives back more than it receives. <br /> <br /> -Mara Beamish http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=249 There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. <br /> <br /> -Minnie Aumonier http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=18 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. <br /> <br /> -James G. Watt, quoted in <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 8 March 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=278 People are like stained-glass windows.<br > They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,<br > But when the darkness sets in,<br > Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br /> <br /> -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=113 One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. <br /> <br /> -Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=429 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br > None but ourselves can free our minds.<br > Have no fear for atomic energy,<br > cause none of them can stop the time.<br > How long shall they kill our prophets,<br > While we stand aside and look? ooh!<br > Some say its just a part of it:<br > Weve got to fulfil de book. <br /> <br /> -Bob Marley, the <a href="http:www.youtube.comwatch?v=p7pAvbjChQM"><span style="it">Redemption Song<span><a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=370 The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=476 Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=236 The amount of electricity that has been saved [by adopting refrigerator efficiency rules in the US]—in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is [only] a moral virtue ... and that you need [increased] supply like ANWR—is two ANWRs worth of energy. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Schneider, Stanford University climatologist, advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on greenhouse emissions http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=509 I reached in experience the [N]irvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=68 The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Jones, <span class="it">The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=260 True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. <br /> <br /> -Seneca, Ancient Roman writer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=364 I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=418 The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. <br /> <br /> -Nelson Henderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=387 Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. <br /> <br /> -John Heywood, 1565 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=292 People are applying the precautionary principle to their own lives by purchasing food that has not been produced by industrial methods. From the simple stance of hazard avoidance, organically produced food is the best option that we have. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Vyvyan Howard, toxico-pathologist at the University of Liverpool, UK http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=604 They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Hemingway http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=567 Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=54 The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. <br /> <br /> -Ross Perot http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=609 Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself…She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=606 Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible? <br /> <br /> -Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=353 An honest man is always a child. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=699 One of the advantages of a different kind of history, of students learning the history of working people, of rebels and dissenters, and black slaves and native americans who are protesting their situation is that it is encouraging to young people. It creates citizens instead of subjects. Here we are in the U.S.A. we consider ourselves a democracy. But in a democracy, you don&#8217;t simply pay homage to the president. In a democracy, citizens gather and they organize. And they make history. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=446 Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=533 A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=631 Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism…Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. <br /> <br /> -Emma Goldman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=250 For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=466 It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=164 We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. <br /> <br /> -Margaret Mead http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=396 The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,<br > The brooks for the fishers of song;<br > To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game<br > The streams and the woods belong. <br /> <br /> -Sam Walter Foss http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=181 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=443 We have got to take back our communities! <br /> <br /> -Bob Finn, December 2008 Christmas Party http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=612 My instinct as an individualist and artist has always warned me most urgently against this capacity of men for becoming drunk on collective suffering, collective pride, collective hatred, and collective honor. When this morbid exaltation becomes perceptible in a room, a hall, a village, a city, or a country, I grow cold and distrustful; a shudder comes over me, for already, while most of my fellow men are still weeping with rapture and enthusiasm, still cheering and venting protestations of brotherhood, I see blood flowing and cities going up in flames. <br /> <br /> -Hermann Hesse: Author (1877-1962) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=335 A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. <br /> <br /> -James Madison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=588 The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. <br /> <br /> -George Bernard Shaw http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=552 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Progress is impossible<br > without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. <br /> <br /> -G. Bernard Shaw http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=101 A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. <br /> <br /> -Eugene M. Poirot, <span class="it">Our Margin of Life<span>, 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=571 The important thing is not to stop questioning. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=284 It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. <br /> <br /> -President Jimmy Carter http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=592 He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=307 Pollution often disappears when we switch to renewable resources. <br /> <br /> -David Morris, <span class="it">Utne Reader<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=377 To know the cause of a disease and to understand the use of the various methods by which disease may be prevented amounts to the same thing in effect as being able to cure the malady. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=486 "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=383 You will find, as a general rule, that the constitutions and the habits of a people follow the nature of the land where they live. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=343 A garden always gives back more than it receives. <br /> <br /> -Mara Beamish http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=36 A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. <br /> <br /> -David Brin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=219 There are thousands of different chemicals in the environment that may cause adverse human health effects. Little is known about the toxicological properties of most of these chemicals... <br /> <br /> -US EPA, <span class="it">Unfinished Business: A Comparative Assessment of Environmental Problems<span>, 1987 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=260 True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. <br /> <br /> -Seneca, Ancient Roman writer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=75 Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. <br /> <br /> -Stephanie Mills, ed., <span class="it">In Praise of Nature<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=373 Wisdom begins in wonder. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=408 Every creature is better alive than dead,<br > men and moose and pine trees,<br > and he who understands it aright<br > will rather preserve its life than destroy it. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, from <span class="it">Chesuncook The Maine Woods<span>, 1848 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=245 A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. <br /> <br /> -Hal Borland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=479 In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, <span class="it">Time and Change<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=610 Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself…She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=626 If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. <br /> <br /> -Noam Chomsky http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=556 When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Wayne Dyer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=448 There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=566 Nature itself is the best physician. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=289 To me, the sea is like a person—like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. <br /> <br /> -Gertrude Ederle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=135 We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. <br /> <br /> -Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=285 Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=506 Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. <br /> <br /> -Mahnaz Afkhami http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=305 To live in fear and falsehood is worse than death. <br /> <br /> -Zend-Avesta (<span class="it">Zoroastrian<span> text) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=655 Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man&#8217;s culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind. <br /> <br /> -Hugh H. Bennett and W.C. Lowdermilk, circa 1930&#8217;s http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=156 "....I had read the accounts in history and heard jokes from my Australian friends referring to Aborigines eating people, and even eating their own babies. Was that true, I asked? Yes. Since the beginning of time, humans have experimented with everything. Even here on this continent, it was not possible to keep people from it. There had been Aboriginal tribes with kings, with female rulers, some who stole people away from another group, and some who ate human flesh. Mutants kill and walk away, leaving the body for disposal. The cannibals killed and used the carcass to nourish life. One group's purpose is neither better nor worse than the other. Killing a human, regardless if it's for protection, revenge, convenience, or food, is all the same. Not to kill another is what differentiates Real People from mutated human creatures.<br > <br > 'There is not morality in war,' they said. 'But cannibals never killed more in one than they could eat. In your wars, thousands are killed in a few minutes. Perhaps it might be worth suggesting to your leaders that both parties in your war agree to five minutes of combat. Then let all the parents come to the battlefield and collect the pieces and parts of their children, take them home and mourn and bury them. After that is over, another five minutes of battle might or might not be agreed upon. It is difficult to make sense of senselessness. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=175 Interview with Mahatma Gandhi:<br > <br > Reporter: "What do you think of Western civilization"<br > Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=243 True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.drweil.com">Dr. Andrew Weil<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=350 Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=530 We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=75 Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. <br /> <br /> -Stephanie Mills, ed., <span class="it">In Praise of Nature<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=93 Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. <br /> <br /> -René Dubos, <span class="it">Mirage of Health<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=236 The amount of electricity that has been saved [by adopting refrigerator efficiency rules in the US]—in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is [only] a moral virtue ... and that you need [increased] supply like ANWR—is two ANWRs worth of energy. <br /> <br /> -Stephen Schneider, Stanford University climatologist, advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on greenhouse emissions http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=544 If you want to make someone angry, tell him a lie; If you want to make him furious, tell him the truth. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=399 Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,<br > We fell them down and turn them into paper,<br > That we may record our emptiness. <br /> <br /> -Kahlil Gibran http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=419 It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=383 You will find, as a general rule, that the constitutions and the habits of a people follow the nature of the land where they live. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=415 If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=468 Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=302 Local TV news across the country [is] saturated with mayhem and fluff at the expense of the broader range of issues important to our communities. TV news has become an emotional collection of the terrifying and the titillating, chosen to generate what marketing experts call 'arousal.' Arousal prepares viewers for TV news' abundant advertising but it does not inform citizens. Rather, it breeds cynicism, discourages civic participation, and promotes fearful withdrawal and passivity. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.bigmedia.org">Rocky Mountain Media Watch<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=166 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. <br /> <br /> -W. M. Lewis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=38 Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. <br /> <br /> -Dennis Gabor, <span class="it">Inventing the Future<span>, 1964 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=556 When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Wayne Dyer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=265 We know the science, we see the threat, and we know the time for action is now. <br /> <br /> -Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-California http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=486 "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=368 It is not living that matters, but living rightly. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=486 "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=499 We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. <br /> <br /> -Eve Curie, French author http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=692 War itself is the enemy of the human race. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=56 It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. <br /> <br /> -Ansel Adams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=694 When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=226 n the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">America's Living Oceans<span>, Pew Oceans Report, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=408 Every creature is better alive than dead,<br > men and moose and pine trees,<br > and he who understands it aright<br > will rather preserve its life than destroy it. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, from <span class="it">Chesuncook The Maine Woods<span>, 1848 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=671 The soil itself must be the object of observation and experiment and the facts obtained must be soil facts before they can be incorporated into soil science. The science of zoology was developed through the study of animals, that of botany through the study of plants, and soil science must be developed through the study of the soil. <br /> <br /> -C. F. Marbut, 1920 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=261 What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows. <br /> <br /> -Alexandra Stoddard, author, interior designer, and philosopher of contemporary living http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=373 Wisdom begins in wonder. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=223 I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. <br /> <br /> -President Abraham Lincoln, 1864 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=81 It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=37 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." <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Washington Post<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=581 Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are. <br /> <br /> -Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=579 He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. <br /> <br /> -English Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=697 Opening and closing of Chapter 9 Tennis On The Titanic<br &gt; During the GoreBushNader presidential election, while the entire nation was hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg looming in the distance, while the passengers and crew concentrated on a tennis game taking place on deck.<br &gt; <br &gt; In our election-obsessed culture, everything else going on in the world&#8212;war, hunger, official brutality, sickness, the violence of everyday life for huge numbers of people&#8212;is swept out of the way while the media covers every volley of the candidates. Thus, the superficial crowds out the meaningful, and this is very useful for those who do not want citizens to look beyond the surface of the system. Hidden by the contest of the candidates are the real issues of race, class, war, and peace, which the public is not supposed to think about.<br &gt; ...<br &gt; <br &gt; The ferocity of the contest for the presidency in recent elections conceals the agreement between both parties on fundamentals. The evidence for this statement lies in eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration, whose major legislative accomplishments&#8212;destroying welfare, imposing more punitive sentences on criminals, increasing Pentagon spending&#8212;were part of the Republican agenda.<br &gt; <br &gt; The Democrats and the Republicans do not dispute the continued corporate control of the economy. Neither party endorses free national healthcare, proposes extensive low-cost housing, demands a minimum income for all Americans, or supports a truly progressive income tax to diminish the huge gap between rich and poor. Both support the death penalty and growth of prisons. Both believe in a large military establishment, in land mines and nuclear weapons and the cruel use of sanctions against the people of Cuba.<br &gt; <br &gt; Perhaps when, after the next election, the furor dies down over who really won the tennis match and we get over our anger at the referee&#8217;s calls and the final, disputed score, we will finally break the hypnotic spell of the game and look around. We may then think about whether the ship is slowly going down and whether there are enough lifeboats and what we should do about all that. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn, <span class="und">A Power Governments Cannot Suppress<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=317 People, not developers, built cities and towns. <br /> <br /> -Richard Domikis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=207 The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. <br /> <br /> -President Lyndon Baines Johnson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=523 Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=389 If one way be better than another,<br > that you may be sure is Nature's way. <br /> <br /> -Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=498 A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. <br /> <br /> -Ramsey Clark http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=300 Each Valentine's day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less-than-rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">Environmental Health Perspectives<span>, Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=400 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=508 Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. <br /> <br /> -Jimmy Carter http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=668 There is no such thing as a residual soil. <br /> <br /> -Roger Parsons, 1981 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=462 What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=170 Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. <br /> <br /> -Alan Watts http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=457 More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=481 I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=557 Most of our problems disappear simply by the process of living life. <br /> <br /> -Werner Erhard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=291 There are 70 pesticides that are listed as known or probable carcinogens, based on animal testing. Of those 70, 44 are in use today, and 23 are used on our food. <br /> <br /> -Gina Solomon, specialist in internal medicine, 2001 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=605 They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Hemingway http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=428 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. <br /> <br /> -Frederick Douglas http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=292 People are applying the precautionary principle to their own lives by purchasing food that has not been produced by industrial methods. From the simple stance of hazard avoidance, organically produced food is the best option that we have. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Vyvyan Howard, toxico-pathologist at the University of Liverpool, UK http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=37 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." <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Washington Post<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=312 Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem. <br /> <br /> -Barry Commoner, <span class="it">Orion Nature Quarterly<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=18 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. <br /> <br /> -James G. Watt, quoted in <span class="it">Newsweek<span>, 8 March 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=518 The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=686 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=674 A cloak of loose, soft material, held to the Earth’s hard surface by gravity, is all that lies between life and lifelessness. <br /> <br /> -Wallace H. Fuller, in <span class="und">Soils of the Desert Southwest<span>, 1975 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=228 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=548 When a well-packaged web of lies has been gradually sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=421 The best part of happiness is the pines. <br /> <br /> -The Quote Garden http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=306 Just as there may be a time lag between [pollution] emissions and exposure, there may also be a time lag between exposure and [human or ecological] damages. <br /> <br /> -U.S. EPA Report, <span class="it">Unfinished Business: A Comparative Assessment of Environmental Problems<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=304 I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed. <br /> <br /> -Russell Train, former EPA head, commention on Bush Administration interference with science http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=322 Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. <br /> <br /> -Brian Tracy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=180 Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=559 You are not what you think you are; What you think, you are. <br /> <br /> -Red Pritchard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=135 We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. <br /> <br /> -Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=158 The Real People tribe believes humans still have evolutionary learning to do as a global family. They believe the universe is still unfolding and not a finished project. Humans seem too busy to become beings. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=129 Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. <br /> <br /> -J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, <span class="it">State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade<span>, 1984 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=326 Until you change the way money works, you change nothing. <br /> <br /> -Michael Rupert, <a href="http:www.fromthewilderness.com">From the Wilderness<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=607 Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible? <br /> <br /> -Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=477 The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=75 Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. <br /> <br /> -Stephanie Mills, ed., <span class="it">In Praise of Nature<span>, 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=254 Considering the whole span of earthly time... Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=384 Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=604 In case you haven’t noticed, we…dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send ’em anywhere. Make ’em do anything. Piece of cake. <br /> <br /> -Kurt Vonnegut http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=554 There will always be men who will try to talk us out of our freedom. <br /> <br /> -Rice McLeod http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=47 Thoughtful farmers are aware that any one crop system is disastrous to the average farmer and those who are living independently and happily on the farm are those who diversify their crops, or in other words raise some cotton, corn, peas, peanuts, hay, potatoes, sugar cane, garden vegetables. <br /> <br /> -"Being Kind to the Soil," <span class="it">The Negro Farmer<span>, January 31, 1914 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=679 While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=687 If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=119 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle (full text of <a href="http:www.solarhaven.orgChiefSeattle.htm">1854 Treaty oration<a>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=614 The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the <span class="it">greatest enemy of the State<span>. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=427 We have already been experiencing the effects of global warming and will continue to do so, until some major and positive, globally-aware, conscientious decisions are made that will slow down Global Warming before it is too late. The death tolls because of the heat, droughts, water shortages, etc. are rising every year as a direct result, however, these are not the only problems, but hopefully these problems will force all legislative bodies to draft laws to make needed changes. <br /> <br /> -Obiora Embry, FounderCEO EConsulting™, modified statement from Union for Concerned Scientists petition late 2007 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=129 Today’s world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity’s own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world’s ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. <br /> <br /> -J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, <span class="it">State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade<span>, 1984 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=157 There was no waste. Everything was recycled back into nature and back into the earth. This was one picnic that left no trash; in fact, you could barely tell we had ever camped and eaten at any of our sites. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=697 Opening and closing of Chapter 9 Tennis On The Titanic<br ><br > During the GoreBushNader presidential election, while the entire nation was hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg looming in the distance, while the passengers and crew concentrated on a tennis game taking place on deck.<br ><br > <br ><br > In our election-obsessed culture, everything else going on in the world—war, hunger, official brutality, sickness, the violence of everyday life for huge numbers of people—is swept out of the way while the media covers every volley of the candidates. Thus, the superficial crowds out the meaningful, and this is very useful for those who do not want citizens to look beyond the surface of the system. Hidden by the contest of the candidates are the real issues of race, class, war, and peace, which the public is not supposed to think about.<br ><br > ...<br ><br > <br ><br > The ferocity of the contest for the presidency in recent elections conceals the agreement between both parties on fundamentals. The evidence for this statement lies in eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration, whose major legislative accomplishments—destroying welfare, imposing more punitive sentences on criminals, increasing Pentagon spending—were part of the Republican agenda.<br ><br > <br ><br > The Democrats and the Republicans do not dispute the continued corporate control of the economy. Neither party endorses free national healthcare, proposes extensive low-cost housing, demands a minimum income for all Americans, or supports a truly progressive income tax to diminish the huge gap between rich and poor. Both support the death penalty and growth of prisons. Both believe in a large military establishment, in land mines and nuclear weapons and the cruel use of sanctions against the people of Cuba.<br ><br > <br ><br > Perhaps when, after the next election, the furor dies down over who really won the tennis match and we get over our anger at the referee’s calls and the final, disputed score, we will finally break the hypnotic spell of the game and look around. We may then think about whether the ship is slowly going down and whether there are enough lifeboats and what we should do about all that. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn, <span class="und">A Power Governments Cannot Suppress<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=191 Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. <br /> <br /> -John McConnell, founder of <span class="it">International Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=168 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=637 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. <br /> <br /> -Oscar Wilde http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=151 Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. <br /> <br /> -Juvenal, Satires http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=93 Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. <br /> <br /> -René Dubos, <span class="it">Mirage of Health<span>, 1959 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=399 Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,<br > We fell them down and turn them into paper,<br > That we may record our emptiness. <br /> <br /> -Kahlil Gibran http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=608 Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=20 The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., <span class="it">Loose Talk<span>, 1980 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=73 Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. <br /> <br /> -Luther Burbank http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=445 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=342 Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. <br /> <br /> -Lou Erickson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=498 A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you. <br /> <br /> -Ramsey Clark http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=12 I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. <br /> <br /> -Darryl Cherney, quoted in <span class="it">Smithsonian<span>, April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=529 Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=400 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=301 Insect populations ... possess considerable genetic diversity and a great potential for adaptation to different or changing environments. This makes them an especially formidable pest of crops, able to adapt to new plant varieties as they are developed or rapidly become resistant to insecticides. <br /> <br /> -M.P. Hoffmann, A.C. Frodsham, <span class="it">Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect Pests<span>, 1993 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=151 Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. <br /> <br /> -Juvenal, Satires http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=660 ... if this is to be a permanent nation we must save this most indispensable of all our God-given assets-the soil, from which comes our food and raiment. If we fail in this, remember that much sooner than we have expected this will be a nation of subsoil farmers. <br /> <br /> -H.H. Bennett 1933 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=634 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. <br /> <br /> -H.L. Mencken http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=111 The human race will be the cancer of the planet. <br /> <br /> -Julian Huxley, attributed http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=549 The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Wayne Dyer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=126 Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. <br /> <br /> -Edwin Way Teale, <span class="it">Circle of the Seasons<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=381 Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=109 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. <br /> <br /> -Edward O. Wilson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=284 It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. <br /> <br /> -President Jimmy Carter http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=327 Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way:<br > stop participating in it. <br /> <br /> -Noam Chomsky http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=692 War itself is the enemy of the human race. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=252 The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Bill Mollison, quoted in <span class="it">Gardening for the Future of The Earth<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=669 Soil mapping is possible only because men can examine a profile at one point and successfully predict its occurrence at another point where surface indications are similar. <br /> <br /> -Author unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=250 For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=349 Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=347 The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=178 I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevet http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=550 If you really want to hate what you love to do...do it for money; it won't take long. <br /> <br /> -Nicholas Grachanin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=134 Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=530 We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=438 Peace.<br > it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=50 We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. <br /> <br /> -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=213 We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself. <br /> <br /> -Father Thomas Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=693 We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=327 Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way:<br > stop participating in it. <br /> <br /> -Noam Chomsky http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=144 You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem. <br /> <br /> -William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, <span class="it">New York Times<span>, 30 November 1988 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=273 I think that the 10-year experiment with genetically engineered foods and genetically engineered animals and drugs is nearly over. We're going to look back at a certain point and say, 'Oh my god, we wasted an entire decade fighting about this when the debate should have been about chemical-intensive agriculture vs. organic agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Ronnie Cummins, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.org">Organic Consumers Association<a>, commenting on Monstanto’s decision not to release its GM wheat due to consumer and farmer resistance http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=14 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Fuller, <span class="it">Gnomologia<span>, 1732 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=388 To find the universal elements enough;<br > to find the air and the water exhilarating;<br > to be refreshed by a morning walk<br > or an evening saunter;<br > to be thrilled by the stars at night;<br > to be elated over a bird’s nest<br > or a wildflower in spring<br > - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, Naturalist (1837-1921) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=571 More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. <br /> <br /> -John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist, "The Affluent Society" http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=551 The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy, and when you're inside, and look around, what do you see? Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand: most of these people are not ready to be unplugged, and many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. <br /> <br /> -Morpheus – <span class="und">The Matrix<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=119 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Seattle (full text of <a href="http:www.solarhaven.orgChiefSeattle.htm">1854 Treaty oration<a>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=345 What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. <br /> <br /> -Will Rogers http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=478 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. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=146 Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It’s like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."<br > Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?"<br > Loyd: "Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.'" <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver, <span class="it">Animal Dreams<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=449 Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=229 I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.<br > <br > The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.<br > <br > Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation’s history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.<br > <br > Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.... <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., <span class="it">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence<span>, 4 April 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=489 To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=272 Audacious at trying out everything, men rush<br > Headlong into the things that have been forbidden. <br /> <br /> -Virgil http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=135 We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. <br /> <br /> -Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=54 The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. <br /> <br /> -Ross Perot http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=634 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. <br /> <br /> -H.L. Mencken http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=609 I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent that their fathers conquered. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=591 If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. <br /> <br /> -Sally Edwards http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=171 In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. <br /> <br /> -John C. Sawhill, former PresidentCEO of <a href="http:nature.org">The Nature Conservancy<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=157 There was no waste. Everything was recycled back into nature and back into the earth. This was one picnic that left no trash; in fact, you could barely tell we had ever camped and eaten at any of our sites. <br /> <br /> -Marlo Morgan, <span class="it">Mutant Message Down Under<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=164 We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. <br /> <br /> -Margaret Mead http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=394 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,<br > if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,<br > if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand,<br > rejoice, for your soul is alive. <br /> <br /> -Eleonora Duse http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=659 We shall never achieve harmony with land any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. <br /> <br /> -Aldo Leopold http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=390 Nature does not hurry,<br > yet everything is accomplished. <br /> <br /> -Lao Tzu http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=520 Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=428 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. <br /> <br /> -Frederick Douglas http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=82 God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=66 Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. <br /> <br /> -Ian McHarg http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=104 As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." <br /> <br /> -U Thant, speech, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=293 Now that I've got kids, it’s become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible. <br /> <br /> -Jamie Oliver, UK celebrity chef, in <span class="it">BBC Good Food<span> magazine http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=54 The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. <br /> <br /> -Ross Perot http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=177 Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=625 Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? <br /> <br /> -Philip Berrigan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=513 In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=556 When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Wayne Dyer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=537 For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=168 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=327 Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way:<br > stop participating in it. <br /> <br /> -Noam Chomsky http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=133 We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home because we have made the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable. For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination, resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger - those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds. <br /> <br /> -Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, <span class="it">Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment<span>, 1996 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=45 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. <br /> <br /> -Robert Lynd, <span class="it">The Blue Lion and Other Essays<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=535 One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?" "No", answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No", Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=410 A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein, 1950 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=387 Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. <br /> <br /> -John Heywood, 1565 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=310 Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. <br /> <br /> -Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay advocate http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=341 Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. <br /> <br /> -Gary Snyder http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=446 Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. <br /> <br /> -George Washington Carver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=69 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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Luther Standing Bear http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=6 Modern technology<br > Owes ecology<br > An apology. <br /> <br /> -Alan M. Eddison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=115 Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. <br /> <br /> -Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=462 What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=214 Each one [of the Earth’s 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem. It’s like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred? <br /> <br /> -Scott Black, <a href="http:www.xerces.org">Xerces Society<a>, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=669 Soil mapping is possible only because men can examine a profile at one point and successfully predict its occurrence at another point where surface indications are similar. <br /> <br /> -Author unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=490 Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. <br /> <br /> -Marianne Williamson, AuthorLecturer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=475 I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=89 Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. <br /> <br /> -Reé Dubos, <span class="it">Medical Utopias<span>, 1961 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=15 Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! <br /> <br /> -Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=636 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. <br /> <br /> -Otto von Bismarck http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=134 Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=230 The need for tax shifting—lowering income taxes while raising taxes on environmentally destructive activities—in order to get the market to tell the truth has been widely endorsed by economists.... The Economist [magazine] has recognized the advantage of environmental tax shifting and endorses it strongly: 'On environmental grounds, never mind energy security, America taxes gasoline too lightly. Better than a one-off increase, a politically more feasible idea, and desirable in its own terms, would be a long-term plan to shift taxes from incomes to emissions of carbon. <br /> <br /> -Lester Brown, <a href="http:www.grinningplanet.com200601-24environmental-disaster-article.htm#betterplanetitem">Plan B 2.0<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=701 The suppression of truth has long been among the highest priorities for the upper echelons of power and authority. For a minority elite that clings to power by the manipulation of the masses using an omnipresent cocktail of lies, deception, mass–produced ignorance and ingrained propaganda, the destruction of truth is an essential method of control. It is a formula that has worked to unmitigated success for the elite throughout history, whether the shadows of power stretch from ancient pyramids, marble temples, castles, mansions or halls of governance. Those holding the levers of power and control understand, better than most, that the dissemination of truths to a blind majority could spell the end of their reign, for truth brings sight to the blind. <br /> <br /> -Manuel Valenzuela http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=459 The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. <br /> <br /> -Norman Borlaug http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=694 When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=376 The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=474 To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=43 When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -David Orr http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=78 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. <br /> <br /> -Carl Sagan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=191 Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. <br /> <br /> -John McConnell, founder of <span class="it">International Earth Day<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=84 Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. <br /> <br /> -Gil Stern http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=165 Becoming intoxicated with a dream gives us the passion to bring it into reality! <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=298 We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there’s a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there’s even more of a delay. No single compound will do this. <br /> <br /> -Tyrone Hayes, biologist, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=92 We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Arnold Toynbee http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=398 It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. <br /> <br /> -Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=192 All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. <br /> <br /> -Edmund Burke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=262 Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Jonas Salk, American physician and microbiologist, 1914-95 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=514 Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=330 America is the conflict between those who want the good life only for themselves and their kind, and those who actually want liberty, justice and happiness for all. <br /> <br /> -Richard Mathis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=512 He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=465 This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=376 The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=44 We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. <br /> <br /> -Francis Bacon http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=487 It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. <br /> <br /> -George Eliot http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=112 Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. <br /> <br /> -René Dubos, quoted in <span class="it">Life<span>, 28 July 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=112 Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. <br /> <br /> -René Dubos, quoted in <span class="it">Life<span>, 28 July 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=360 From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=698 To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. <br &gt;<br &gt; What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places&#8212;and there are so many&#8212;where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. <br &gt;<br &gt; And if we do act, in however small a way, we don&#8217;t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn, <span class="und">You Can&#8217;t Be Neutral On A Moving Train<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=637 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. <br /> <br /> -Oscar Wilde http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=355 Be as you wish to seem. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=319 We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=499 We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. <br /> <br /> -Eve Curie, French author http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=473 Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. <br /> <br /> -Stewart Udall http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=479 In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, <span class="it">Time and Change<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=246 It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees... <br /> <br /> -Murray Morgan, <span class="it">The Last Wilderness<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=648 Nature has endowed the Earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children. <br /> <br /> -Charles Kellogg, <span class="und">The Soils That Support Us<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=90 In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. <br /> <br /> -Richard Wilkinson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=278 People are like stained-glass windows.<br > They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,<br > But when the darkness sets in,<br > Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br /> <br /> -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=203 Industrialized, chemical-intensive agriculture and our globalized system of distributing food and fiber are literally destroying the earth, driving two billion farmers off the land, and producing a product which is increasingly contaminated. That’s why the wave of the future is organic and sustainable, not GMO. <br /> <br /> -Ronnie Cummins, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.org">Organic Consumers Association<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=23 I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. <br /> <br /> -Ymber Delecto http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=548 When a well–packaged web of lies has been gradually sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. <br /> <br /> -Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=630 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty and democracy? <br /> <br /> -Mohandas Gandhi, <span class="und">Gandhi on non–violence<span> edited by Thomas Merton http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=443 We have got to take back our communities! <br /> <br /> -Bob Finn, December 2008 Christmas Party http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=416 I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=348 In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=354 As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=442 At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.<br > <br > <br /> <br /> -Che Guevara http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=68 The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Jones, <span class="it">The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=180 Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=206 The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. <br /> <br /> -Cicero http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=570 In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. <br /> <br /> -Benjamin Franklin http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=361 He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=45 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. <br /> <br /> -Robert Lynd, <span class="it">The Blue Lion and Other Essays<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=472 Coal has always cursed the land in which it lies. When men begin to wrest it from the earth it leaves a legacy of foul streams, hideous slag heaps and polluted air. It peoples this transformed land with blind and crippled men and with widows and orphans. It is an extractive industry which takes all away and restores nothing. It mars but never beautifies. It corrupts but never purifies. <br /> <br /> -Harry Caudill http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=134 Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=402 I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. <br /> <br /> -James Russell Lowell http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=253 Our choices at all levels—individual, community, corporate and government—affect nature. And they affect us. <br /> <br /> -David Suzuki, <a href="http:www.davidsuzuki.org">Suzuki Foundation<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=166 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. <br /> <br /> -W. M. Lewis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=39 When you defile the pleasant streams<br > And the wild bird’s abiding place,<br > You massacre a million dreams<br > And cast your spittle in God’s face. <br /> <br /> -John Drinkwater http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=279 Toxic chemicals in the home can be eliminated simply by making thoughtful choices in the supermarket after educating oneself about where the hazards are in common consumer products. <br /> <br /> -Gary A. Davis and Em Turner, authors <span class="it">Safe Substitutes at Home: Non–Toxic Household Products<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=260 True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. <br /> <br /> -Seneca, Ancient Roman writer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=277 When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. <br /> <br /> -Bobby McLeod (Koori activist, aboriginal) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=536 We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we create the world. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=541 The people have to have the power—it belongs to the people. <br /> <br /> -Fred Hampton http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=278 People are like stained–glass windows.<br > They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,<br > But when the darkness sets in,<br > Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br /> <br /> -Elizabeth Kübler–Ross http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=98 Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. <br /> <br /> -Jean Arp http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=415 If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=555 There are no problems apart from the mind. <br /> <br /> -Krishnamurti http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=529 Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=415 If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=562 I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men’s faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual’s capacity to make an independent position for himself. <br /> <br /> -Alfred Nobel http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=87 The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. <br /> <br /> -Irving Babbitt http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=178 I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevet http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=285 Thousands of tired, nerve–shaken, over–civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. <br /> <br /> -John Muir http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=430 But the act I want to talk about is growing some, even just a little, of your own food. Rip out your lawn, if you have one, and if you don’t, look into getting a plot in a community garden. Measured against the problem we face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap–energy mind. <br /> <br /> -Michael Pollan, excerpt from <span class="it">New York Times<span> editorial, <a href="http:www.organicconsumers.orgarticlesarticle_11675.cfm">http:www.organicconsumers.orgarticlesarticle_11675.cfm<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=344 The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. <br /> <br /> -James Oppenheim http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=172 Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not. <br /> <br /> -<span class="it">The Lorax<span> by Dr. Suess http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=243 True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.drweil.com">Dr. Andrew Weil<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=286 The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside. <br /> <br /> -James Watkins, Admiral (Retired) U.S. Navy, head of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=80 Man maketh a death which Nature never made. <br /> <br /> -Edward Young http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=654 ... As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man’s cunning. <br /> <br /> -Charles E. Kellogg http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=385 When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. <br /> <br /> -Jimi Hendrix http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=631 The most violent element in society is ignorance. <br /> <br /> -Emma Goldman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=365 I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=252 The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture. <br /> <br /> -Bill Mollison, quoted in <span class="it">Gardening for the Future of The Earth<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=96 It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau, <span class="it">Walden<span>, 1854 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=168 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. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=577 I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=264 Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth’s climate.... It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer. The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.agu.org">American Geophysical Union<a>, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=74 Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. <br /> <br /> -William Rathje, <span class="it">The Economist<span>, 8 September 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="it">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=400 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=439 Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and Hate leads to suffering. <br /> <br /> -Yoda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=176 You must be the change you wish to see in the world. <br /> <br /> -Mahatma Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=429 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br > None but ourselves can free our minds.<br > Have no fear for atomic energy,<br > cause none of them can stop the time.<br > How long shall they kill our prophets,<br > While we stand aside and look? ooh!<br > Some say its just a part of it:<br > Weve got to fulfil de book. <br /> <br /> -Bob Marley, the <a href="http:www.songfacts.comdetail.php?id=4431"><span class="it">Redemption Song<span><a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=439 Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and Hate leads to suffering. <br /> <br /> -Yoda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=365 I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=251 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=251 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=394 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,<br > if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,<br > if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand,<br > rejoice, for your soul is alive. <br /> <br /> -Eleonora Duse http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=603 The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor. <br /> <br /> -Mark Twain http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=11 Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. <br /> <br /> -Henrik Tikkanen http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=414 I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech–tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=575 When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. <br /> <br /> -Napolean Hill http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=534 What you are now is what you have been. What you will be is what you are now. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=354 As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=248 Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come. <br /> <br /> -Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=619 There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. <br /> <br /> -Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Iran Contra Hearings http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=55 Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. <br /> <br /> -Richard Bach http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=611 It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. <br /> <br /> -Samuel Adams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=564 Whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt. <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=578 The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity. <br /> <br /> -Mervyn Deitel http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=261 What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows. <br /> <br /> -Alexandra Stoddard, author, interior designer, and philosopher of contemporary living http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=488 If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. <br /> <br /> -English Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=439 Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and Hate leads to suffering. <br /> <br /> -Yoda http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=173 Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Chinese Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=698 To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. <br ><br > What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. <br ><br > And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn, <span class="und">You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=334 Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular—but one must take it simply because it is right. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=337 A good gardener always plants 3 seeds—one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for himself. <br /> <br /> -Leo Aikman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=383 You will find, as a general rule, that the constitutions and the habits of a people follow the nature of the land where they live. <br /> <br /> -Hippocrates, <span class="it">Hippocratic writings<span>. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd. Harmondsworth (Penguin), 1978 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=661 To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil. <br /> <br /> -Xenophon, <span class="und">Oeconomicus<span>, 400 B.C. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=323 Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. <br /> <br /> -Jacques Cousteau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=505 The connection between women&#8217;s human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. <br /> <br /> -Mahnaz Afkhami http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=182 All truth passes through 3 stages.<br &gt; First, it is ridiculed.<br &gt; Second, it is violently opposed.<br &gt; Third, it is accepted as being self&#8211;evident. <br /> <br /> -Arthur Schopenhauer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=631 The most violent element in society is ignorance. <br /> <br /> -Emma Goldman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=429 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br &gt; None but ourselves can free our minds.<br &gt; Have no fear for atomic energy,<br &gt; cause none of them can stop the time.<br &gt; How long shall they kill our prophets,<br &gt; While we stand aside and look? ooh!<br &gt; Some say its just a part of it:<br &gt; Weve got to fulfil de book. <br /> <br /> -Bob Marley, the <a href="http:www.songfacts.comdetail.php?id=4431"><span class="italic">Redemption Song<span><a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=584 We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. <br /> <br /> -Adelle Davis http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=13 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? <br /> <br /> -Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=475 I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=192 All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. <br /> <br /> -Edmund Burke http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=651 I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it&#8217;s not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It&#8217;s the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all. <br /> <br /> -Ed Begley, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=15 Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible&#8212;or even sinful&#8212;that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! <br /> <br /> -Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=615 Why of course the people don&#8217;t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don&#8217;t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. <br /> <br /> -Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=405 I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own<br &gt; where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day<br &gt; climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew&#8211;wet red berries in a cup. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=608 Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Jefferson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=729 O Goddess Earth, O all-enduring wide expanses!<br &gt; Salutation to thee.<br &gt; Now I am going to begin cultivation.<br &gt; Be pleased, O virtuous One. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Sanskrit prayer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=311 Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature&#8217;s answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology. <br /> <br /> -William Irwin Thompson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=196 To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded. <br /> <br /> -Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=292 People are applying the precautionary principle to their own lives by purchasing food that has not been produced by industrial methods. From the simple stance of hazard avoidance, organically produced food is the best option that we have. <br /> <br /> -Dr. Vyvyan Howard, toxico&#8211;pathologist at the University of Liverpool, UK http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=563 Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. <br /> <br /> -Albert Einstein http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=703 Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy. <br /> <br /> -Obiora Embry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=407 He who plants a tree<br > Plants a hope. <br /> <br /> -Lucy Larcom, <span class="italic">Plant a Tree<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=311 Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature&#8217;s answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology. <br /> <br /> -William Irwin Thompson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=226 In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability. <br /> <br /> -<span class="italic">America&#8217;s Living Oceans<span>, Pew Oceans Report, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=361 He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=585 Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. <br /> <br /> -Napolean Hill http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=639 America&#8217;s water should belong to each of us, not to the companies that bottle and sell it and not to the corporations that want to privatize it. <br /> <br /> -Wenonah Hauter http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=561 Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. <br /> <br /> -Jane Addams http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=677 By sense of touch the feet assess the nature of the wilderness of earth beneath; yet human speech cannot express what feet can teach!<br ><br > Walking, walking, walking on the earth!<br ><br > The moment that a child can walk, Like that in which it first can talk, is a precious start of exploration into landscapes of creation what feet can teach!<br ><br > Walking, walking, walking, walking on the earth! <br /> <br /> -<span class="und">Walking on the Earth<span> by F.D. Hole, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=347 The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. <br /> <br /> -Chief Sitting Bull http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=183 What You Get When You Hook Up With The Power Company:<br > <br > 1. Never ending source of pollution from the production of the electricity at the source<br > 2. Mining of a finite resource<br > 3. Visual pollution around the land<br > 4. High voltage towers and cabling cris&#8211; crossing the landscape<br > 5. Support of a local monopoly<br > 6. Ever increasing price for electricity<br > 7. Crappy energy consuming buildings<br > 8. Power failures, blackouts, and poor quality power <br /> <br /> -Gary Dorn, Permaculturist, Australia http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=429 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;<br > None but ourselves can free our minds.<br > Have no fear for atomic energy,<br > cause none of them can stop the time.<br > How long shall they kill our prophets,<br > While we stand aside and look? ooh!<br > Some say its just a part of it:<br > Weve got to fulfil de book. <br /> <br /> -Bob Marley, the <a href="http:www.songfacts.comdetail.php?id=4431"><span class="italic">Redemption Song<span><a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="italic">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=650 We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. <br /> <br /> -William Vogt, <span class="und">Road to Survival<span>, 1948 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=211 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=479 In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs, <span class="italic">Time and Change<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=726 If your hand is turned up, you will be hungry; if your hand is turned down, toward the soil, your belly will be full. <br /> <br /> -Hawaiian proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=684 The fight to save family farms isn&#8217;t just about farmers. It&#8217;s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. <br /> <br /> -Willie Nelson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=3 There is a sufficiency in the world for man&#8217;s need but not for man&#8217;s greed. <br /> <br /> -Mohandas K. Gandhi http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=68 The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. <br /> <br /> -Ernest Jones, <span class="italic">The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud<span>, 1953 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=124 There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. <br /> <br /> -Brooke Medicine Eagle http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=152 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,<br > There is a rapture on the lonely shore,<br > There is society, where none intrudes,<br > By the deep sea, and music in its roar:<br > I love not man the less, but Nature more. <br /> <br /> -George Gordon, Lord Byron, <span class="italic">Childe Harold&#8217;s Pilgrimage<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=291 There are 70 pesticides that are listed as known or probable carcinogens, based on animal testing. Of those 70, 44 are in use today, and 23 are used on our food. <br /> <br /> -Gina Solomon, specialist in internal medicine, 2001 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=279 Toxic chemicals in the home can be eliminated simply by making thoughtful choices in the supermarket after educating oneself about where the hazards are in common consumer products. <br /> <br /> -Gary A. Davis and Em Turner, authors <span class="italic">Safe Substitutes at Home: Non&#8211;Toxic Household Products<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=512 He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=57 We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=516 To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one&#8217;s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one&#8217;s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=29 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. <br /> <br /> -Bill Vaughn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=269 The good news is we know what to do. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. And as they become available and become more affordable when produced in scale, they will make it easier to respond. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=433 Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. <br /> <br /> -Arundhati Roy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=167 The amount of sunshine energy that hits the surface of the Earth every minute is greater than the total amount of energy that the world&#8217;s human population consumes in a year! <br /> <br /> -<span class="italic">Home Power Magazine<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=74 Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. <br /> <br /> -William Rathje, <span class="italic">The Economist<span>, 8 September 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=1 Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. <br /> <br /> -Henry David Thoreau http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=121 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination. <br /> <br /> -Ancient Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=13 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? <br /> <br /> -Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=419 It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation&#8217;s need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. <br /> <br /> -Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=738 When you throw dirt, you lose ground. <br /> <br /> -Texan proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=223 I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money&#8211;power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. <br /> <br /> -President Abraham Lincoln, 1864 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=409 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<br > from where we first emerged. Then we&#8217;ll have to view the universe above<br > 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. <br /> <br /> -Jimmy Buffet, <span class="italic">Mother Earth News<span> March&#8211;April 1990 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=195 The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=89 Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. <br /> <br /> -Re&eacute; Dubos, <span class="italic">Medical Utopias<span>, 1961 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=418 The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. <br /> <br /> -Nelson Henderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=339 Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy. <br /> <br /> -Richard W. Langer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=118 The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=358 Employ your time in improving yourself by other men&#8217;s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=69 The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man&#8217;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. <br /> <br /> -Chief Luther Standing Bear http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=169 &quot;...In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground&#8212;the unborn of the future Nation.&quot; <br /> <br /> -From The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (<span class="italic">The Great Binding Law<span>) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=515 The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=631 The most violent element in society is ignorance. <br /> <br /> -Emma Goldman http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=423 If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. <br /> <br /> -Stephan Girard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=286 The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside. <br /> <br /> -James Watkins, Admiral (Retired) U.S. Navy, head of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=617 Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. <br /> <br /> -George Orwell http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=515 The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=26 Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. <br /> <br /> -John Clapham, <span class="italic">A Concise Economic History of Britain<span>, 1957 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=27 And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: &quot;Look at this Godawful mess.&quot; <br /> <br /> -Art Buchwald, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=264 Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth&#8217;s climate.... It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer. The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern. <br /> <br /> -<a href="http:www.agu.org">American Geophysical Union<a>, 2003 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=78 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. <br /> <br /> -Carl Sagan http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=104 As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: &quot;With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,&quot; or, &quot;They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.&quot; <br /> <br /> -U Thant, speech, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=489 To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. <br /> <br /> -Confucius http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=300 Each Valentine&#8217;s day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less&#8211;than&#8211;rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume. <br /> <br /> -<span class="italic">Environmental Health Perspectives<span>, Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=167 The amount of sunshine energy that hits the surface of the Earth every minute is greater than the total amount of energy that the world&#8217;s human population consumes in a year! <br /> <br /> -<span class="italic">Home Power Magazine<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=478 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. <br /> <br /> -John Burroughs http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=512 He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=471 If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. <br /> <br /> -African Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=361 He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=79 The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. <br /> <br /> -John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=401 For in the true nature of things,<br > if we rightly consider,<br > every green tree is far more glorious<br > than if it were made of gold and silver. <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=423 If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. <br /> <br /> -Stephan Girard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=148 In an underdeveloped country, don&#8217;t drink the water; in a developed country, don&#8217;t breathe the air. <br /> <br /> -<span class="italic">Changing Times<span> magazine http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=721 Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. <br /> <br /> -Russell Page http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=229 I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: &quot;A time comes when silence is betrayal.&quot; That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.<br > <br > The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government&#8217;s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one&#8217;s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.<br > <br > Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation&#8217;s history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.<br > <br > Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don&#8217;t mix, they say. Aren&#8217;t you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.... <br /> <br /> -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., <span class="italic">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence<span>, 4 April 1967 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=403 The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what &quot;the story of the trees&quot; would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. <br /> <br /> -Author Unknown, quoted in <span class="italic">Quotations for Special Occasions<span> by Maud van Buren, 1938 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=628 The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. <br /> <br /> -Joseph Conrad, from <span class="und">Heart of Darkness<span> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=179 I&#8217;d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don&#8217;t have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that. <br /> <br /> -Thomas Edison, 1931 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=423 If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. <br /> <br /> -Stephan Girard http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=648 Nature has endowed the Earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children. <br /> <br /> -Charles Kellogg, <span class="und">The Soils That Support Us<span>, 1956 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=134 Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=209 All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day&#8211;to&#8211;day lives.... Indoor air pollution is one risk that you can do something about. <br /> <br /> -US EPA http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=245 A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. <br /> <br /> -Hal Borland http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=212 We&#8212;human beings&#8212;are part of &#8217;biodiversity.&#8217; We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us. <br /> <br /> -Darrell Merrell, heirloom vegetable farmer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=473 Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. <br /> <br /> -Stewart Udall http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=624 Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. <br /> <br /> -Issac Asimov http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=709 If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry, <span class="und">The Unsettling of America<span>, 1977 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=207 The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. <br /> <br /> -President Lyndon Baines Johnson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=298 We&#8217;ve found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there&#8217;s a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there&#8217;s even more of a delay. No single compound will do this. <br /> <br /> -Tyrone Hayes, biologist, quoted in <a href="http:www.sierraclub.orgsierra">Sierra<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=202 A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world. <br /> <br /> -Shakyamuni http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=468 Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=231 Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. <br /> <br /> -Lorraine Anderson http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=228 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. <br /> <br /> -Edward Abbey http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=33 The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men&#8217;s apples and head their cabbages. <br /> <br /> -Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, <span class="italic">États et empires de la lune<span>, 1656 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=151 Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. <br /> <br /> -Juvenal, Satires http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=669 Soil mapping is possible only because men can examine a profile at one point and successfully predict its occurrence at another point where surface indications are similar. <br /> <br /> -Author unknown http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=497 We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history. <br /> <br /> -Charlotte Bunch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=426 Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker, <span class="italic">The Color Purple<span>, 1982 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=294 If ... we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. <br /> <br /> -Rachel Carson, <span class="italic">Silent Spring<span>, 1962 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=622 Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. <br /> <br /> -Arthur Miller, playwright http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=222 The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society focus most of their resources on research and treatment rather than on cancer prevention. By talking as if the cure is around the corner and their &quot;war on cancer&quot; is being won, when certain cancer rates&#8212;notably breast cancer and lung cancer among women and malignant melanoma&#8212;are on the rise, they divert attention from strict regulation of industry and minimizing people&#8217;s exposure to carcinogens. <br /> <br /> -H. Patricia Hynes, <span class="italic">The Recurring Silent Spring<span>, 1989 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=155 Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. <br /> <br /> -Cree Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=244 You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon [rainforest] disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop&#8212;or really even decrease&#8212;deforestation. <br /> <br /> -Patrick Symmes, <span class="italic">Outside Magazine<span>, interviewed on <a href="http:www.loe.orgshowsshows.htm?programID=05&#8211;P13&#8211;00008">Living on Earth<a> http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=535 One of his students asked Buddha, &quot;Are you the messiah?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, answered Buddha. &quot;Then are you a healer?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, Buddha replied. &quot;Then are you a teacher?&quot; the student persisted. &quot;No, I am not a teacher.&quot; &quot;Then what are you?&quot; asked the student, exasperated. &quot;I am awake,&quot; Buddha replied. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=655 Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man&#8217;s culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind. <br /> <br /> -Hugh H. Bennett and W.C. Lowdermilk, circa 1930&#8217;s http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=571 More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. <br /> <br /> -John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist, &quot;The Affluent Society&quot; http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=665 Soils are developed; they are not merely an accumulation of debris resulting from decay of rock and organic materials ... In other words, a soil is an entity&#8212;an object in nature which has characteristics that distinguish it from all other objects in nature. <br /> <br /> -C.E.Millar & L.M.Turk 1943 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=355 Be as you wish to seem. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=433 Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. <br /> <br /> -Arundhati Roy http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=335 A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. <br /> <br /> -James Madison http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=488 If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. <br /> <br /> -English Proverb http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=271 US academic institutions are being &#8217;bought&#8217; (via funding) by biotechnology firms which exert a vice&#8211;like grip on the US government. <br /> <br /> -Ignacio Chapela, plant geneticist, in an interview with the <span class="italic">UK Guardian<span> newspaper http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=368 It is not living that matters, but living rightly. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=118 The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=278 People are like stained&#8211;glass windows.<br > They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,<br > But when the darkness sets in,<br > Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br /> <br /> -Elizabeth Kübler&#8211;Ross http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=535 One of his students asked Buddha, &quot;Are you the messiah?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, answered Buddha. &quot;Then are you a healer?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, Buddha replied. &quot;Then are you a teacher?&quot; the student persisted. &quot;No, I am not a teacher.&quot; &quot;Then what are you?&quot; asked the student, exasperated. &quot;I am awake,&quot; Buddha replied. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=255 We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives. <br /> <br /> -Al Gore http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=690 One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=474 To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. <br /> <br /> -Wendell Berry http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=699 One of the advantages of a different kind of history, of students learning the history of working people, of rebels and dissenters, and black slaves and native americans who are protesting their situation is that it is encouraging to young people. It creates citizens instead of subjects. Here we are in the U.S.A. we consider ourselves a democracy. But in a democracy, you don&#8217;t simply pay homage to the president. In a democracy, citizens gather and they organize. And they make history. <br /> <br /> -Howard Zinn http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=527 On life&#8217;s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=484 How well we come through the era of globalization (perhaps whether we come through it at all) will depend on how we respond ethically to the idea that we live in one world. <br /> <br /> -Peter Singer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=683 There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery and the other that heat comes from the furnace. <br /> <br /> -Aldo Leopold http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=680 Plowed ground smells of earthworms and empires. <br /> <br /> -Justin Isherwood http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=127 To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one&#8217;s own in the midst of abundance. <br /> <br /> -the Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=535 One of his students asked Buddha, &quot;Are you the messiah?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, answered Buddha. &quot;Then are you a healer?&quot; &quot;No&quot;, Buddha replied. &quot;Then are you a teacher?&quot; the student persisted. &quot;No, I am not a teacher.&quot; &quot;Then what are you?&quot; asked the student, exasperated. &quot;I am awake,&quot; Buddha replied. <br /> <br /> -Buddha http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=635 Weapons are tools of violence; all decent men detest them. <br /> <br /> -Lao Tzu http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=564 Whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt. <br /> <br /> -Barbara Kingsolver http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=555 There are no problems apart from the mind. <br /> <br /> -Krishnamurti http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=163 Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. <br /> <br /> -Mark Twain http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=27 And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: &quot;Look at this Godawful mess.&quot; <br /> <br /> -Art Buchwald, 1970 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=19 I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun&#8217;s energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. <br /> <br /> -Sir George Porter, quoted in <span class="italic">The Observer<span>, 26 August 1973 http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=212 We&#8212;human beings&#8212;are part of &#8217;biodiversity.&#8217; We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us. <br /> <br /> -Darrell Merrell, heirloom vegetable farmer http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=140 When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. <br /> <br /> -Joseph Wood Krutch http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=211 The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. <br /> <br /> -Alice Walker http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=370 The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. <br /> <br /> -Socrates http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=178 I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. <br /> <br /> -President Theodore Roosevet http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=463 Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.] <br /> <br /> -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=39 When you defile the pleasant streams<br > And the wild bird&#8217;s abiding place,<br > You massacre a million dreams<br > And cast your spittle in God&#8217;s face. <br /> <br /> -John Drinkwater http://www.econsultingllc.org/full_quote?quote=388 To find the universal elements enough;<br > to find the air and the water exhilarating;<br > to be refreshed by a morning walk<br > or an evening saunter;<br > to be thrilled by the stars