We're in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. —David Suzuki More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience: the task of surviving prosperity. —Alan Gregg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 God-awful mess. —Art Buchwald More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Lewis Mumford More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More about this quote Tags: cleaning discipline care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste . . . Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back. —John Ross More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts lead us back to God. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: God philosophy atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People see God every day; they just don't recognize him. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: God recognition divinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys, but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Kaaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart, and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found. —Jelaluddin Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry. —Corita Kent More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The Bible is] an oral history. It was passed down, word of mouth, father to son, from Adam to Seth, from Seth to Enos, from Enos to Cainan, for forty generations, a growing, changing story . . . until Moses finally gets it down on lambskin. But lambskins wear out, and need to be recopied. Copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of an oral history passed down through forty generations. From Hebrew it's translated into Arabic, from Arabic to Latin, from Latin to Greek, from Greek to Russian, from Russian to German, from German to an old form of English that you could not read. . . . You can't put a grocery list through that many translations, copies, and retellings, and not expect to have some big changes in the dinner menu when the kids make it back from Kroger. And yet people are killing each other over this written word. Here's a tip: if you're killing someone in the name of God, you're missing the message. —Nick Annis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email