to love and be loved is the greatest joy on earth--keats
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.---Margaret Mead
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"How rich will we be when we have converted all our forests, all our soil, all our water resources, and all our minerals into cash?" - Ding Darling
No one has the right to feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.--Dorothy Day
Enough sunlight falls on the earth in one minute to meet the world's energy needs for one year.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community--Aldo Leopold
Everything in excess is opposed to nature-- Hippocrates
We are destroying the things we need for the things we want.-- Julia Butterfly Hill
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
... Chief Seattle
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. --H.G.Wells
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. --Carl Sagan
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.-- Mark Twain
Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — Mark Twain
Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither.
I care deeply about the environment and would like to find someone who shares my concerns. I plan to own a ranch in the not-so-distant future, part of which will be set aside as wildlife habitat. I am seriously considering opening a Bed and Breakfast (eco-sensitive, of course). I love animals. I speak Spanish, which comes in really handy when traveling. If you are local, male or female, I would love to find a hiking buddy.
Vegetarianism
(Sep 7)
I, too, have struggled to balance my need to eat meat with my love of animals. I don't know if I am in a position to educate anyo...
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Quotes and Comments
(Jun 19)
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. TREESActs of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant ...
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