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 It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. - Dalai Lama
Don't blow it—good planets are hard to find. - Anonymous slogan quoted in Time magazine
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late '80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe," one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly. - David Suzuki
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, The Dance of Life, 1923
It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. - Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, February 25, 1990
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, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. - Rachel Carson (1907-1964), Silent Spring
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. - William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, June 18, 1990
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's Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
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 Smithsonian, April 1990
Nearness to nature...keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt, and in touch with the unseen powers. - Ohiyesa [Charles Alexander Eastman] (1858-1939), Native American (Santee Sioux) writer and physician
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, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. - Michel de Montaigne, translated
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, 1964
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. - Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. - James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, March 8, 1982
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, A Sand County Almanac
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, More in Anger, 1958
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, Buzzworm, November 1990
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, New York Times Magazine, June 4, 1978
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. - John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery—not over nature but of ourselves. - Rachel Carson (1907-1964), Silent Spring
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