The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become
global garbage cans.
Jacques Cousteau
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The iron hand crush'd the tyrants head and became a tyrant in his stead
William Blake
They Must Find It Difficult, Those Who Have Taken Authority As The Truth, Rather Than Truth As The Authority
Gerald Massey
‘Para Todos Todo Nada Para Nosotros’
‘Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves.’
The Zapatistas
Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules.
You keep score with money.
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
Awareness is the silent choiceless observation of what is.
In this awareness the problem unrolls itself, and thus is completely understood.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems—the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti - That Benediction is Where You Are, pp18-19
... a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labour of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system
to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth . . .
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
General Eisenhower
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.
Rita Mae Brown - Sudden Death, 1983; often attributed to Albert Einstein and others
We must become the change we want to see in the world
Mohandas Gandhi
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works
Dr. Carl Sagan
there's no such thing as bad weather or good weather its just weather - there is however, inappropriate clothing...
Billy Connoly
People only see what they are prepared to see
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened
Make your hobby your job and you'll never work again
Life is a journey not a destination
if you didn't know your birth date, how old would you be?
the most hopelessly enslaved are those falsely believing they are free
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Asimov:
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation.
Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation.
As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies, the more people there are the less one individual matters.
(just wanna add this)
the less individuals there are the more people matter
It's no good thing to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
A great site for 'green' quotes:
http://www.fallschurchenvironment.org/greenquotes.html
This is a great place which has memorable quotes form Zeigeist:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827/quotes
and Zeigeist Addendum:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/quotes
