Environmental Wisdom

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beautiful skies of island Pag

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

William James

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."

John James Audubon

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Henrik Tikkanen

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

James Lovelock

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Ralph Nader

Nature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

James Lovelock

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

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

James Lovelock

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Holy Land is everywhere”

Nicholas Black Elk

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Kenneth E. Boulding

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

James Lovelock

These beautiful pictures of island Pag skies have been taken by Iva Busic