ENVIRONMENT

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. (Ralph Nader)

Please save the earth. It’s the only planet with chocolate. (Seen on a T-shirt)

Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste…Let’s put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn’t get our deposit back. (John Ross)

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. (Kurt Vonnegut)

It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams)

When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. (Elizabeth West)

I’m optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I’m optimistic about the civilization that will replace it. (James Baldwin)

In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it’s un-environmental, its un-economical. That is the rule of nature. (Mollie Beattie)

Humankind-despite its artistic pretensions, its sophistication, and its many accomplishments-owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. (Source Unknown)

It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan spill. It was yours. (Greenpeace advertisement)

If we think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, we see that we are the earth; we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth. (Joseph Campbell)

We have to excel at one of two things. Either we become good at planting in the Spring, or we learn how to beg in the Fall. (Jim Rohn)

I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world. Perhaps you’ve seen it. (Steven Wright)

To the extent that most of us are users and consumers of energy and a certain style of life, we are covertly giving the go-ahead to our government to protect those things for us. We must realize that inherent in every time you turn on the ignition or climb into a jet plane, you are in some way part of a chain of reinforcing six percent of the world that’s using about fifty percent of the natural resources. And that’s not fair. We can’t play “King of the Mountain” much longer. We’re not respected by any of the poor people of the world at this point, because our humanitarian concerns have been overridden by our fear of loss of our “King of the Mountain” status. (Ram Dass)

The average U.S. home contains more TVs than people. (Phil’s Phunny Phacts)

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. (Margaret Mead)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. (Albert Einstein)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. (Joni Mitchell)

Every civilization reaches a moment of crisis. This crisis presents its challenge: smash or go on to higher things. So far no civilization has ever met this challenge successfully. History is the study of the bones of civilizations that failed, as the pterodactyl and the dinosaur failed. (Colin Wilson)

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Native American Proverb)