"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."

Adler, Jerry · Ecology · 2 fans >>
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"Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it."

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"The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death."

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"Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom."

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"As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them."

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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying."

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"O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been."

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"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

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"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

Kelly, Petra · Ecology · 1 fans >>
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