Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...” ~Jonathan Swift

[Boerseun]

"A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the topic."

 

- Winston Churchill

[Michaelangelica]

Ecology Quotes

 

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."

~ John James Audubon

 

 

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper…

~ Ed Begley, Jr.

 

 

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."

~ Wendell Berry

 

"The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies."

~ Mary Brave Bird

 

"If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years."

~ Fred Bodsworth

 

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."

~ Dietrick Bonhoeffer

 

 

"We can use our scientific knowledge to improve and beautify the earth, or we can use it to ...poison the air, corrupt the waters, blacken the face of the country, and harass our souls with loud and discordant noises, [or]...we can use it to mitigate or abolish all these things."

~ John Burroughs

 

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

 

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strengths that will endure as life lasts

~ Rachel Carson

 

 

 

 

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

~ Rachel Carson

 

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world--the very nature of its life.

~ Rachel Carson

 

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

~ Rachel Carson

 

 

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer.

Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

~ Anton Chekhov

 

 

 

 

 

"Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas."

~ Michael J. Cohen

 

 

"Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there."

~ Barry Commoner

 

 

 

 

 

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can not be eaten.

~ Cree Indian Prophecy

 

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit.

I want to do something to create radical change to help save it

. It's our responsibility.

~ Leonardo DiCaprio

 

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

~ Leonardo DiCaprio

 

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

~ Leonardo DiCaprio

 

 

 

 

 

"In the end, we conserve only what we love.

We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

~ Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet

 

 

"I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful."

~ Justice William O. Douglas

 

 

"The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal."

~ René Dubos

 

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

~ Michael Fox

 

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

~ Mohandas Gandhi

 

"It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety.

This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake."

~ Lois Gibbs

 

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

~ Jane Goodall

 

 

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves.

We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

~ Al Gore

"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love."

~ Stephen Jay Gould

 

 

 

"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive."

~ Paul Hawken

 

 

 

 

"The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world."

~ Denis Hayes

 

 

I think our main foreign policy is economic policy but to think that economic policy is not environmental policy is to sort of, miss the point.

You know you can't have economic development without impact on the biosphere.

~ Randy Hayes

 

 

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[Michaelangelica]

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[Turtle]

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,

And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

I will be brief. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[DougF]

May your stuffing be tasty

May your turkey plump,

May your potatoes and gravy

Have never a lump.

May your yams be delicious

And your pies take the prize,

And may your Thanksgiving dinner

Stay off your thighs!

 

;) Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

"Unknown"

[Loricybin]

"There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment."

-Tom Robbins

 

"To breathe the air the angels breathe.. you must go to tahoe."

-Mark Twain

[Turtle]

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~Ambrose Bierce

[Turtle]

Nothing is profound. ~ Roger Thelonious George

[Michaelangelica]

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,

And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

I will be brief. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet

 

My favourite play

'. . . and the rest is silence"

[Michaelangelica]

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat

and some old clothes.

And with a hoe in one hand and a cold

drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

- Texas Bix Bender, Don't Throw in the Trowel

[Turtle]

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ~Akhenaton

[Turtle]

The Fountain-of-Youth springs from the Well-of-Age. ~Beatrix Terranna Goodone

[Michaelangelica]

"Life's a mess:

and then its over

You have to be very clear

about how you want to spend it"

From tonight's harrowing episode of The Bill on ABC TV

 

 

On a "lighter" note on difficult gardens

Hawkeye-(loud and accusingly)

"Why are we letting weeds grow here?"

A-(matter of factly) "Our last gardener tried to mow the minefield."

MASH

 

 

 

"What could possibly go wrong!?"

Dr Who

[Turtle]

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves. ~Aristophanes

[Turtle]

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? ~Arthur C. Clarke

[Michaelangelica]

Once you accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.