"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is
competence, because it's so rare."
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"We
do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
~ Native American Proverb
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to
save the environment."
~ Ansel Adams
"God
has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
~ John Muir
"We
abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we
see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love
and respect."
~ Aldo
Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national
security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense
abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
~ Robert Redford
"The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
~ Edward Abbey
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...
had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
~ Havelock Ellis
"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can
leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops."
~ Paul Brooks
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them".
~ Bill Vaughn
"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to
death."
~ Tom McMillan
"Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the
planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we
first emerged."
~Jimmy Buffet
