"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children"
-Kenyan Proverb
-Kenyan Proverb
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced"
-Kierkegaard
"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further developments"
-Lewis Mumford
-Lewis Mumford
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them"
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going"
-Chinese proverb
"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-St. Francis of Assisi
-St. Francis of Assisi
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
- Stanley Baldwin
- Stanley Baldwin
"Future generation is the most important thing."
-Confucius
-Confucius
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
-Ansel Adams
-Ansel Adams
"Modern technology owes ecology an apology."
-Alan M. Eddison
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
-Alan M. Eddison
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
-William Ruckelshaus
"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
-Pat Brown
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us."
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us."
-Henrik Tikkanen
"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
-Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
-Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!"
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!"
-Paul MacCready, Jr.
"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
-Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
-Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
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