Enviromental Quotes

• Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Inspirational, Trying, Achieve

  Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The artist...is the voice of the people.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Art, Voice

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• Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Inspirational, Depressing, Anticipation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

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• You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Commitment, Sticks

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• Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mean, Worry

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• We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

  Thomas Berry

  Inspirational, Future, Sea

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.175, Crown

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• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Lying, Future

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

  Bill Gothard

  Inspirational, Motivation, Mind

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• Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Civilization, Energy

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.234, Routledge

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• Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

  Maurice Strong

  Responsibility, Eugenics, Civilization

  "Glenn Beck holds up Maurice Strong as evidence of 'global government' conspiracy" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

  David Rockefeller

  Eugenics, World Government, Order

  "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flynt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Truth, Ideas

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.18, tredition

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• You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Impact

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• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

  Anwar Sadat

  Inspirational, Change, Stress

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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• Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Inspirational, Lasting Change, People

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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• The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Eugenics, Shelter

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• Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Inspirational, Hands, Grit

  "Zen to Go" by Jon Winokur, (p. 126), 1989.

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.

  John T. Houghton

  Historical, Disaster, Sceptic

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• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Roots, Bricks

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