The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael PollanTags: happiness inspiration food relationships gardening motivation eating community sharing planet
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.
LeeAnn TaylorTags: life inspirational learning god change heaven mortality angels earth transcendence becoming transformation butterflies butterfly planet being become chrysalis metamorphosis spiritual-path spiritual-progression
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
Paulo CoelhoTags: inspirational environment earth planet
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary SnyderTags: earth place planet find gary responibility snyder
This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...
If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.
Tags: human die earth killing planet klaatu rase
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.
Stanisław LemTags: science planet lem his-master-s-voice
Tags: animals freedom beauty wonder wonderful earth respect conversation lessons wild planet creatures enrichment
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]
Tags: future peace mortality diversity tolerance awesome planet jfk american-university
If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the asteroid belt. This Threlfall is a cheerless, chilly spot, and the whole history and religion of the Threls has been concerened with their quest to knit a nice woolly coverlet for it.
Philip ReeveTags: humor aliens space planet alien astroid plantets
Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the context of grassroots frustration, insensitive enthusing about the potential for energy abundance usually elicits an annoyed retort. "We have to conserve." The authors believe the human family also has to _choose_. The people we speak with at the recycling depot or organic juice bar are for the most part not looking at the _difference_ between harmony-with-nature technologies and exploitative practices such as mountaintop coal mining. "Destructive" was yesterday's technology of choice. As a result, the words "science and technology" are repugnant to many of the people who passionately care about health, peace, justice and the biosphere. Usually these acquaintances haven't heard about the variety of constructive yet powerful clean energy technologies that have the potential to gradually replace oil and nuclear industries if allowed. Wastewater-into-energy technologies could clean up waterways and other variations solve the problem of polluting feedlots and landfills.
Jeane ManningTags: science life energy world nature environment environmentalism ecology electricity planet
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