Thursday November 20, 2008, 5:04 pm


"...I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."
~ Mother Teresa

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."
~ U Thant



"Wildness is the preservation of the World."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"We can never have enough of nature."
~ Henry David Thoreau
Walden, 1854

"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
~ Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
~ Henry David Thoreau




"We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial."
~ Ted Turner

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
~ Stewart Udall

"A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life."
~ Stewart Udall


The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
~ David Wann

"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do."
~ Barbara Ward

"Our only choice, whatever our dogma, is to protect the Earth. This is our common progress or our common ruin. There is nothing in between"
~ Barbra Ward, Special Advisor of the UN Development Program

"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."
~ Alan Watts




"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
-- Dennis Weaver



"To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem."
~ Douglas P. Wheeler



I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
~ E. B. White




"I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day."
~ E. B. White

"I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better change of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially."
~ E. B. White

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
~ Lynn White, Jr.




"This is what you should do;
love the Earth and sun and the animals...
~ Walt Whitman

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
~ Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
~ Walt Whitman

"This is what you should do;
love the Earth and sun and the animals,
despite riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labour to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence towards the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown
or to any many or number of men...
re-examine all you have been told at school
or church or in any book,
dismiss what insults your soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
~ Walt Whitman

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
~ Richard Wilkinson

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."
~ Terry Tempest Williams



"Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future."
~ Timothy Wirth


"If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either."
~ Joseph Woodkrutch

Thursday November 20, 2008, 6:50 pm
noted my friend thank you

Thursday November 20, 2008, 6:58 pm
NOTED THANK YOU

Thursday November 20, 2008, 7:51 pm
Noted. Thanks.

Friday November 21, 2008, 1:11 am
Thanks for these reminders Marieemma! Noted

Friday November 21, 2008, 8:22 am
Thank you!

Saturday November 22, 2008, 7:30 am
As long as we read and heed, these words will not be in vain. Thanks Marieemma.

Saturday November 22, 2008, 1:15 pm
Thank you so much Mariemma.

Be glad you have the opportunity to be alive at this time, and to be a part of that preparation for the coming influences of a spiritual nature that must rule the world. These are indicated, and these are part of thy experience. Be happy of it, and give thanks daily for it.

Edgar Cayce Reading 2376-3

Saturday November 22, 2008, 2:15 pm
EDWARD ABBEY:
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Saturday November 22, 2008, 10:28 pm
Thank you, Marieemma, for those inspiring and awesome quotations.

Sunday November 23, 2008, 7:30 am
Thanks Marieemma, I was thinking as I was reading them that they should be on billboards everywhere and by seeing them and reading them constantly , they would slowly sink in people's consciousness...

Sunday November 23, 2008, 11:15 pm
nice post thanks.

Tuesday November 25, 2008, 1:47 am
Noted, Thank you...

Tuesday November 25, 2008, 12:30 pm
Gore reminds me of one of the Borgia popes exhorting people against sin and hiding all kinds of corruption. Excuse me, shouldn't Gore be riding a bicycle and not zooming around the world in a private jet , that is, if he really believed his own wods?