Enviromental Quotes - Page 3

• Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.

  Wynn Bullock

  Inspirational, Teacher, Nature

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Nature, Attention

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• The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Oil, People

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.

  David Foreman

  Eugenics, Goal, Population

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• If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

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• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Kyoto Protocol, People

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• Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable...

  Maurice Strong

  Eugenics, Air, Class

  "Agenda 21: The U.N.'s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds" by Larry Bell, www.forbes.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, People

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Lying, Artist

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Diversity, Age

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• Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Cells, Earth

  "Healing Gaia: practical medicine for the planet". Book by James Lovelock, 1991.

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• By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Climate, Population

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• We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Suffering, Environmental

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• The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

  Daniel Botkin

  People, Historical, Our Society

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• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accord

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Islands

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• If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Brain, World

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• Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Inspirational, Writing, Ideas

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• Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Opinion, Force

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Eugenics, Law

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• In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.

  Robert Muller

  Eugenics, Government, Views

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• The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Country, Eugenics, Numbers

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• Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

  Hazel Henderson

  Inspirational, Power, Feet

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