Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. —William Wordsworth More about this quote Tags: love nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur. —Elizabeth Janeway More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all have to excel at one of two things. Either we become good at planting in the spring, or we learn how to beg in the fall. —Jim Rohn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas; take your next trip in kilometers. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed "progress.". . . The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: money poverty thrift Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. —Adolph Monod More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it's unenvironmental, it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature. —Mollie Beattie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. —Kurt Vonnegut Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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