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 Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:46 pm
"We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children" - Anonymous
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:50 pm
Oh beautiful, for-smoggy skies, insecticided grain!
For strip-mined mountain's majesty's above the asphalt plain!
America, America, Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs from sea to oily sea!
-George Carlin xd
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs, there'd be no place to put it all." -Robert Orben
"Take care of the Earth, and she will take care of you." -Unknown
"Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years." -Charles Haas
"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers." -James G. Watt
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:14 am
"Ahimsa Parmo Dharma, Non-violence is the supreme religion." - Jainism
Jainism is what Buddhism branched off from for those that don't know, Ahimsa (non-violence) is their highest belief. I have nothing but the highest respect for them. They're one of the few religions in the world that preach compassion and actually live by it. Jain monks and nuns are usually fruitarians, refusing to consume anything that would result in its death after harvesting. And spend much of the year in fasting.
"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man."—Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi got his non-violent ethics from his mother who was a Jain, he however by indian tradition was a Hindu. His father was Hindu, thus he was Hindu.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:01 pm
"Our children are our future, let them learn from our mistakes so they shall not make the same mistakes we did."
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:18 pm
Temba "Our children are our future, let them learn from our mistakes so they shall not make the same mistakes we did."
And I like your quotes, Joshua! 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:07 pm
rikuHEART Temba "Our children are our future, let them learn from our mistakes so they shall not make the same mistakes we did."
And I like your quotes, Joshua! 3nodding I believe David Suzuki said that once. He also said that Children are our future and we adults often don't listen to them. I believe he said in an interview that, imagine we are all in a car heading for a brick wall, (environmental catastrophe due to global warming execrated by our pollution) and we are are guessing about what to do(politicians) and some one in the back seat says hey guys put on the breaks and turn the wheel, but they are ignored and we continue arguing, often the ones in the back seat are our children or environmentally conscious people like us. I don't know if any transcript exists but I would defiantly post it if it did.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:40 pm
Temba rikuHEART Temba "Our children are our future, let them learn from our mistakes so they shall not make the same mistakes we did."
And I like your quotes, Joshua! 3nodding I believe David Suzuki said that once. He also said that Children are our future and we adults often don't listen to them. I believe he said in an interview that, imagine we are all in a car heading for a brick wall, (environmental catastrophe due to global warming execrated by our pollution) and we are are guessing about what to do(politicians) and some one in the back seat says hey guys put on the breaks and turn the wheel, but they are ignored and we continue arguing, often the ones in the back seat are our children or environmentally conscious people like us. I don't know if any transcript exists but I would defiantly post it if it did.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:30 pm
This should be the motto of our wonderful government:
"Planning: Much work remains to be done before we can anounce our total failure to make any progress"
-"Planning" poster on Dispair.com
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:04 pm
ghstphantom3 This should be the motto of our wonderful government: "Planning: Much work remains to be done before we can anounce our total failure to make any progress" -"Planning" poster on Dispair.com
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:19 pm
I hope to use these in a book I'm writing on sustainability. In the meantime, enjoy!
"The only barren lands that exist are the ones we ourselves create."
- Alex Dunkel (me), 11/20/06
"Never in all of existence has a species strived so hard to destroy wealth."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/20/06
"Finding new ways to live will soon be the only way to live."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/18/06
"Life as we know it will not persist unless we desist in our unsustainable activities."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/18/06
"To claim that humans transcend the interconnectedness of all life is not only nonsensical and asinine, but suicidal."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/18/06
"Creative thought is only as good as the culture that shaped it. Our survival depends on thinking outside the box."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/18/06
"It's easy to confuse existence for subsistence. However, it is not easy to survive that mistake."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/19/06
"Perhaps it is no great surprise that a society which has difficulty living on simple economic budgets is equally negligent when it comes to surviving on our planetary solar budget."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/20/06
"One lie begets another. When the fundamental principles of a culture consist of lies, only discord will follow."
- Alex Dunkel, 11/20/06
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:00 pm
rikuHEART Oh beautiful, for-smoggy skies, insecticided grain!
For strip-mined mountain's majesty's above the asphalt plain!
America, America, Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines with billboard signs from sea to oily sea!
-George Carlin xd
I'm putting this one in my sig!
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:57 pm
Wow this list really is beautiful..... it makes me think... I may add some to my sig when i get round to it biggrin
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:13 am
"Only when the last fish has been killed and the last tree has been felled will man realise that he cannot eat money."
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:28 am
Awesome quotes guys!
My personal favorite: "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddah
Some other good ones:
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. " -Mohandas K. Gandhi
"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - From Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
"Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back." Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
"To hunt a species to extinction is not logical." Mr. Spock, Star Trek IV
"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find." -Quoted in Time
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughn
"Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature." - Dave Foreman
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." -President Lyndon B. Johnson
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