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| Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~ Havelock Ellis, |
| There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~ Robert Orben |
| It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~ Greenpeace advertisement, |
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~ Alan M. Eddison |
| In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ~ Paul Brooks, |
| Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~ Quoted in |
| Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~ William Ruckelshaus, |
| When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. ~ Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, |
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| Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~ Henrik Tikkanen |
| I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~ Darryl Cherney, quoted in |
| I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~ Robert Redford |
| Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. ~ Michel de Montaigne |
| We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~ Thomas Fuller, |
| Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~ Paul MacCready |
| We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~ Native American Proverb |
| There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan |
| Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~ Horizon |
| They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~ James G. Watt, quoted in |
| I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy…. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~ Sir George Porter, quoted in |
| The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~ Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., |
| We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~ Aldo Leopold, |
| 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, |
| I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. ~ Ymber Delecto |
| The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~ David Wann, |
| So bleak is the picture… that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. ~ Philip Shabecoff, |
| Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~ John Clapham, |
| 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 Godawful mess." ~ Art Buchwald |
| The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~ Paul A. Samuelson, |