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Quotes

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Native American Proverb


There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan, 1964

So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Magazine, 4 June 1978


Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, États et empires de la lune, 1656
 

When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.
John Drinkwater

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot