The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows
Hope MirrleesTags: dreaming cows colour the-universe impenetrable-shadows planet-earth
When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself.
Certainly no one is watching after her, to the point where she's now calling herself M. Earth, using her first initial only, like the early women writers who did not want their work to be automatically dismissed because of their gender disadvantage. Though she is grand, M. Earth is feeling, perhaps, overly feminine, and therefore vulnerable. Don't even mention the word Gaia; it's such a projection! She thinks she could benefit from a more macho profile, a little kick-ass to make her point. Perhaps a little masculine detachment would be helpful, or a thicker skin. Because, frankly, she's been trampled, poisoned, stripped bare, robbed blind, and blamed for just about everything that's come down the pike. And like all mothers, everyone just assumes she'll always be there for them with open, loving arms, and a cup of hot cocoa. That it will be her pleasure to feed them, lick their wounds, and clean a load or two of their dirty laundry. She's looking for a little more respect.
Tags: respect mother-earth planet-earth donny-and-ursula-save-the-world donny-and-ursula gender-disadvantage m-earth sharon-weil when-no-one-is-watching
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
Margaret AtwoodTags: ecology planet-earth
It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.
Brian W. AldissTags: loneliness planet-earth
in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the world. But none of us need be reminded that the future of our planet is being held hostage by our own cleverness, with nuclear physics, chemistry, agribusiness, mineral exploration, and bioengineering threatening our biosphere in ways we could never have imagined even twenty years ago.
Hal Zina BennettTags: world threat environmental-protection planet-earth biosphere ecological
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