David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed somehow related. Because species disappear when their habitat does, he photographed them against the nowhere of a black backdrop (which sometimes meant propping up a black velvet cloth in the most unlikely places and discouraging climates), and so each creature, each plant, stood as though for a formal portrait alone against the darkness. The photographs looked like cards too, card from the deck of the world in which each creature describes a history, a way of being in the world, a set of possibilities, a deck from which cards are being thrown away, one after another. Plants and animals are a language, even in our reduced, domesticated English, where children grow like weeds or come out smelling like roses, the market is made up of bulls and bears, politics of hawks and doves. Like cards, flora and fauna could be read again and again, not only alone but in combination, in the endlessly shifting combinations of a nature that tells its own stories and colors ours, a nature we are losing without even knowing the extent of that loss.
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: nature environment endangered-species habitat page-21-22
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
Pope John Paul IIStichwörter: environment earth stewardship
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma GandhiStichwörter: inspirational man environment earth greed indulgence need conservation bounty
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy CarterStichwörter: nature environment wilderness
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John KeatsStichwörter: poetry nature environment
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
Aldo LeopoldStichwörter: nature environment wilderness
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore RooseveltStichwörter: environment conservation
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Gil Scott-HeronStichwörter: environment conservation
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
Stichwörter: environment song-lyrics conservation
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.
Art BuchwaldStichwörter: environment conservation
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