Quotes

_  “I conceive that the land belongs  to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living and countless are still unborn. ”       (Chieftan from Nigeria)

_ “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)

_ “There’s so much pollution in the air that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to pu it all.”                                                               ( Robert Orben )

_ “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”                                                                            (Bill Vaughn)

_ ” For 200 years, we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”           Tom McMillan.

_ “I only went out for a walk and finally conducted to stay out till sundown; for “going out”, I found, was really  “going in”.                           (John Muir, 1913)

_ “Till now man has been against Nature; from now on, he will be up against his own nature.”                                                           ( Dennis Garbor,Inventing the Future)

_ “Humankind has not woven  the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ”                                                      (Chief Seattle, 1855)

_ “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumm leaves.”                                                                                               ( John Muir )

_ ” Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor… situated as it is ninety-three million miles away.”                                                                            (Stephanie Milly, In Praise of Nature,1990 )

_ “Never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another.”                                                                                                                            ( Juvenal,  Satires  )

_ “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”                                                                                                                        ( W.Shakespeare )

_ “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught we will realise that we cannot eat money.”                                                                                                                                (Cree Indian proverb)