Money is a dream. It is a piece of paper on which is imprinted in invisible ink the dream of all the things it will buy, all the trinkets and all the power over others. —David T. Bazelon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For every person who has ever lived there will come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. —Pam Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Environmentalism suddenly struck me as the most obvious philosophy imaginable: Let us not ruin forever where we live and work and breathe and eat. Earth's future inhabitants will no doubt look upon our current environmental practices — maintained despite all manner of evidence that doing so will result in planetary ruin — roughly the way we look upon eighteenth-century surgery. And that is if we, and they, are very lucky. —Tom Bissell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. —José Ortega y Gasset More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii's Big Island. You own everything, my dear sovereign — the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as the Internet and the wild horses and the roads. Please take good care of it all, ok? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. —Rob Brezsny More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —René Dubos More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. —Marya Mannes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are three kinds of people: The ones who learn by reading. The ones who learn by observation. And the rest, who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When industrial pollutants finally make the air unbreathable, we will be advised to cover the cities over with plastic domes and air-condition them. Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban industrialism. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: air breathing pollution domes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We call that species most successful that has made its own kind its worst enemy. —Garrett Hardin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. —John Muir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life — a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. —Rachel Carson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it comes down to it, would you really choose economics over environment? Where will you be when there is no clean air or water? Screw economics. I want to live. —Clara Price More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. —Charles N. Haas More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email