Quotations
A certain degree of physical harmony
and comfort is necessary,
but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of
help.’
Mahatma
Gandhi
There is an orderliness in the universe,
there is an unalterable law governing everything and every
being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind
law can govern the conduct of human beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
Unless we change the direction we
are heading, we might end up where we are going.
Chinese
Proverb
"The earth provides enough
to satisfy every man's needs,but not every man's greed. "
Mahatma
Gandhi
"What we are doing to the forests
of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing
to ourselves and to one another."
Mahatma
Gandhi
"Whenever you find yourself
on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark
Twain
"We abuse land because we regard
it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a commodity
to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Aldo
Leopold
"To return to my own trees,
I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with
a touch of my hand against their trunks."
Ruskin
Bond
" In a time of change, it is
learners who inherit the future, the learned find themselves
equipped to live only in a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hofer
"All things in the universe
have a language.
It is not they who must learn to speak, it is we."
Anonymous
"Every time you admire something
in nature, it's a prayer to the Creator."
Vernon
Harper
"We share the earth not only
with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures."
The
Dalai Lama
"We need a new environmental consciousness on a global
basis. To do this, we need to educate people."
Mikhail
Gorbachev
"The fate of the living planet
is the most important issue facing mankind."
Gaylord
Nelson
"We cannot have ecological
movement designed to prevent violence against nature, unless
the principle of non-violence becomes central to the ethics
of human culture."
Mahatma
Gandhi
"God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand
straining ,leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save
them from fools."
Joan
Muir
"Those who love and free nature
are never alone."
Rachel
Carson
"I feel more confident than
ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual
consumer."
Denis
Hays
"Whatever befalls the earth,
befalls the people of the earth."
Chief
Seattle
"Plans to protect air and water,
wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
Stewart
Udall
"The ecological crisis is doing
what no other crisis in history has ever done -- challenging
us to a realization of a new humanity."
Jean
Houston
"Until man duplicates a blade
of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge."
Thomas Edison
"No one person has to do it
all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations
we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable
future and a healthy environment."
John
Denver
"Modern man no longer regards
Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to
behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant."
Aldous
Huxley
"What we presumably lack the
imagination and courage to admit, is that it's not nearly
as certain as we think that we are the most developed race
to have lived on earth. We are so blinded by what we ourselves
have achieved that we lack perspective."
Tons
Brunes
"Wildlife is decreasing in
the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns"
Mahatma Gandhi
"The best friend of earth of
man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically,
we have one of the greatest resources on the earth."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Where the quality of life
goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down
for humans."
George Holland
"When we heal the earth, we
heal ourselves. "
David
Orr
"Over the long haul of life
on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers
of business, who are the ultimate accountants."
Stewart
Udall
"If we do not permit the Earth
to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce
food either."
Joseph
Woodkrutch
"Man shapes himself through
decisions that shape his environment."
Rene
Dubos |
