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
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