Author Index for Environmental Quotations
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Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
We are slaves
a necessity of the human spirit
to hell with our children
only means by which we can requite God's
love
We need the possibility of escape
as vital to our lives as water and
good bread
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted
plant!
the power to dominate and exploit every corner
Henry Abbey (1842–1911)
We plant the ship when we plant the
tree
Janet N. Abramovitz
forests now lose more carbon to the
atmosphere
humankind's short-sightedness
Mumia Abu-Jamal
We live in a world that fears and hates
its young
Brock Adams
treasure houses of knowledge
Scott Adams
smoky, filthy ball of death
Adbusters
the human causes of global warming
Aesop (c. 555 B.C.)
opened it only to find—nothing
if our wishes were gratified
African Proverb
When you plant a tree, never plant
only one
Agence France Presse
noxious gas content beyond
acceptable limits
15% of Russia
badly polluted says Putin
US transportation emits more CO2 than
any other nation except China
wind power leaps forward
Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375)
Satisfied with little
John Alexander
Remember how many closets you have
JoAnne Allen
Ten-thousand
Americans die each year from asbestos-related diseases
Leslie Allen
average global temperatures at the earth’s surface climbed
Woody Allen
Me and nature
hard to figure out how to get the bark
on
a tree never hits an automobile
We stand at the crossroads
Isabel Allende
Everybody has to be involved in a very
firm and assertive way
Dr. Miguel Altieri
You can delay it, but it's going to
happen
Ruben Alves
live by the love of what we will never
see
Ivan Amato
430 billion lbs. of garbage
Ambrose (339-397)
Nature created common rights
If your product increases
Senseless avarice
American Indian Proverb
Water Wasteland
American Wind Energy Association
Why wind energy?
Amish Proverb
We are borrowing
Amos (c. 760 BC)
the one who forms the mountains, creates
the wind
Jonathan Amos
the present rate of melting is greater
than it has been for the last 5,000 years
Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (1888-1970)
does not love God
Father Andrew
I have found peace among the silver
trees
Maya Angelou
Nature has no mercy at all
Kofi Annan
we are moving too slowly
We have the problem all over the world
The world is not ours, the earth is not
ours
water issues contain the seeds of violent
conflict
Anonymous Jordanian
It's predicted in the Koran
Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274)
Any error about creation...
Arabian proverb
Do not cut down the tree
Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
To the size of states there is a
limit
True happiness
something of the marvelous
Louis Armstrong (1901-1970)
what a wonderful world
Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935)
private property is stolen property
Brothers and Sisters, love the earth
If the sun were not hung so high
living book of God's creation lies open
Johann Christoph Arnold
we have become dulled
Pampered
children are the product of pampered parents
The world does not belong to us
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
brutalizes our lower class
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Humanity is cutting down its forests
Stop chopping down the rain forests
Associated Press
human-caused climate change
Study Says Global Warming May Be Melting
Ice Cap
are you comfortable drinking water
50 billion tons of water a year from
the Greenland ice sheet
warmer than the previous nine
centuries
Largest ozone hole on record
spotted
exposing residents to high levels of
ultraviolet radiation
More than a quarter of the
world's coral reefs have been destroyed
The once-mighty Rio Grande is so tapped
out
the urgent need for the United States to
begin cutting its emissions
Mexico lost forest equivalent to the area
of Ireland
leaked hazardous material in 25,000
sites around Florida
China issues dire environment report
oxygen-starved
“dead zones" in oceans has risen more than a third
Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)
We are the ones who have lost our
way
Myron S. Augsburger
when we belch polluted air into
their backyards
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
All plenty
It is not earthly riches
the activity of ants and bees
Rejoice instead in the light
See what greed has imposed on you
struck dumb and overwhelmed by
miracles
it is evil men who make this evil
world
creatures are glorifying to their
Artificer
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
heaven-born things fly to their native seat
Tom Avril
treating people worse than lab rats
W.E. Aytoun (1813-1865)
The earth is all the home I have
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Maltbie D. Babock (1858-1901)
All nature sings
To be alive only to appetite is to be all but dead
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Of Gardens
a second book called creation
William B. Badke
Project Earth
Christopher Ball
lying about global warming
Jeffrey Ball
less likely to underwrite financing on conventional coal-fired power plants
Larry Balow
Garbage is like water
Neela Banerjee
17 percent to 24 percent of total
industry emissions
Benjamin R. Barber
Toxins don't stop for customs
It is about culture as commodity
The United States represents an
especially foreboding case study
The moral logic of austerity contradicts
the economic logic of consumption
Ian Barbour
Our view of nature will influence
the way we treat nature
Bard of Cincinnati
a thin layer of soil
Jeff Barnard
The world's frogs, toads and other
amphibians are vanishing
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Man has sought to take from the
natural world
Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett
We're just sopping up what's left
Basil the Great (329-380)
the sense of fellowship with all
living things
think of all these creations
Who is the covetous man?
thrust the care of the common weal
upon your neighbor
Jean Baudrillard
mindless luxury of a rich civilization
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
you see nothing
BBC News Online
ozone losses of more than 60%
first mass die-off of coral
500,000 tonnes of old and unused
toxic pesticides
pregnant women have 1% higher risk of
baby with congenital defect if near landfill
We cannot keep treating it as if it will
never run out
the use of water will increase 40%,
17% more water than is available
British Insurers say claims may triple because of increased extreme
weather
Amphibian Survival Alliance
Luther Standing Bear
Only to white man was nature a
"wilderness"
Barry Bearak
the largest mass poisoning of a
population in history
Martha Beck
spend
our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash
Elizabeth Becker
the fastest-growing sources of
pollution
Ernest Becker (1924-1974)
Escape from Evil
he spends his time shopping
William H. Becker
a web of spiritual assumptions
We do this ecological evil
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
A vast and majestic tree
the heart makes a man rich
Perry Beeman
Iowa's lakes among filthiest in the
world
Sharon Begley
What were anomalies have become the norm
Robert Bellah
The Broken Covenant
Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)
God wanted man
Michael Bender
375,000 babies born each year at
risk of neurological problems
Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger)
Before
it's too late, we need to make courageous choices
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
The question is not, can they
reason
Molly Bentley
melt on Greenland the highest in recorded history
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Trees and stones
a hopeless maze
love my dog also
Fr Thomas Berry
we have been autistic for centuries
we will listen, or we will die
intoxication with our power
Wendell Berry
elaborately rationalized rape and
plunder of the natural world
In losing stewardship
To cherish what remains
They don't tell him that he is a stupid
yokel
we must daily break the body
an economy that sees the life of a
community as expendable
The Mad Farmer
Another Turn of the Crank
there would not be enough farmers left
Is this not the raw material of bad
dreams?
destroyed by popular demand
news from rural America has been almost
unrelievedly bad
The health of nature is the primary
ground of hope
Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem
we are absurd
A good future is implicit in the soils,
forests, grasslands...
The problems are our lives
answers to the problems of ecology
are found in economy
We all live by robbing nature
describe the difference between
modern war and modern industry
delight in the variety and
individuality of creatures
the gravest problem of land use
Good agriculture and forestry cannot be
"invented"
of no concern whether or not animals
suffer
Much of our waste problem is to be
accounted for
our waste problem is not the fault
only of producers
rich and powerful need the help of
ordinary people
how might any person of faith be
excused
We have no adequate policy
he'd sow only when he knew what the land
was fit for
pure science now needs to move fast
as grave an indicator of totalitarian
purpose as a concentration camp
the soil exceeds our comprehension
biological implications of mile-square
fields of cabbage
The history of the white man's use of the
earth
some people grow rich by making things to
throw away
a just wage for a life of carrying
off other people's cans and bottles
A nation of urban nomads
Our comfort will be paid by someone
else's distress
we are all sliding downward toward
the ashheap or the dump
the soil itself begins to flee from us in
water and wind
Art of the Commonplace
Only humans squander and hoard
standing deep in his own excrement
We have made of the rivers and oceans and winds niggers
Commercial conquest is final than military defeat
We cannot restrain ourselves
irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive
It is absurd. It is nevertheless true
only possible guarantee of the future
we can destroy it also by wasting it
the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction
almost nobody cares where water comes from, so long as it keeps coming
flinging God's gifts into His face
nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present
No individual life is an end in itself
The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one’s own interest
soil is the great connector of lives
Henry Beston (1888-1968)
fellow prisoners of the splendor
and travail of the earth
the dipper stood on its handle
the shoreless oceans of the sky
Bible:
Amos 4:13
1 Chronicles 16:33
2 Chronicles 7:14
1 Corinthians 3:7
1 Corinthians 7:29,31
1 Corinthians
15:40-41
1 Corinthians 8:13
Colossians 1:15 –17
Deuteronomy 10:14
Deuteronomy 11:15
Deuteronomy 11:16-17
Deuteronomy 12:23-25
Deuteronomy 20:19
Deuteronomy 22:6-7
Deuteronomy 22:9
Deuteronomy 24:19-21
Deuteronomy 25:4
Deuteronomy 28:15
Ecclesiastes 1:6
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Ecclesiastes 4:4-6
Ecclesiastes 6:7
Exodus 20:17
Exodus 20:25
Exodus 23:10-11
Exodus 23:4
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 23:25
Exodus 34:21
Ezekiel 33:18-19
Ezra 9:10
Genesis 1:11-12
Genesis 1:20-23
Genesis 1:20-23
Genesis 1:24-26
Genesis 2:9
Genesis 2:15
Genesis 8:22
Genesis 9:8-11
Genesis 27:28
Genesis 36:6
Haggai 1:10-11
Hebrews 6:7
Hosea 2:18-20
Hosea 4:1-3
Isaiah 2:4
Isaiah 5:8
Isaiah 11:6-9
Isaiah 14:7-8
Isaiah 19:4-8
Isaiah 24:4-5
Isaiah 24:4-6
Isaiah 43:20-21
Isaiah 55:12-13
Isaiah 61:1-4
James 5:1-6
Jeremiah 3:2-3
Jeremiah 9:10
Jeremiah 9:12-14
Jeremiah 12:4, 10-11
Jeremiah 44:22-23
Job 12:7-10
Job 12:15
Job 14:7-9
Job 14:18-19
Job 24:19
Job 26:7-12
Job 31:38-40
Job 37:11-13
Job 37:15-18
Job 38:24
Job 38:25-30
Joel 1:19-20
Joel 2:23
John 6:12
1 John 3:17-18
Leviticus 19:9-10
Leviticus 19:23-25
Leviticus 25:2-7
Leviticus 25:23-24
Leviticus 26:3-6
Luke 12:15
Luke 12:27-28
Luke 14:1-2,10-12
Luke 21:25-26
Mark 4:7
Mark 4:28
Mark 16:15
Matthew 6:19-21
Matthew 6:25-26
Matthew 6:26
Micah 7:13
Numbers 35:33
Philippians 4:11-13
Proverbs 12:10
Proverbs 27:18
Proverbs 27:20
Proverbs 28:20
Proverbs 29:18
Proverbs 30:8-9
Psalm 8:3
Psalm 19:1
Psalm 19:4-6
Psalm 24:1
Psalm 42:7
Psalm 49:7-11
Psalm 50:7-14
Psalm 65:9-10
Psalm 65:11-13
Psalm 72:16
Psalm 77:16-18
Psalm 78:15-18
Psalm 78:26
Psalm 85:12-13
Psalm 104:5-13
Psalm 104:14-15
Psalm 104:24-25, 30
Psalm 107:23-39
Psalm 115:16
Psalm 119:36-37
Psalm 135:7
Psalm 148:7-13
Revelations 4:13
Revelations 8:7
Revelations 8:10
Revelations 9:3
Revelations 16:8
Revelations 22:1-2
Romans 8:20-22
Sirach 43:2-5
Wisdom of Solomon 11:24
Charles Birch
the solutions to our problems
Rose Elizabeth Bird (1936-1999)
That does not fit my definition of a good tenant
Black Elk a.k.a. Ekhaka Sapa (1863-1950)
the Great Spirit is within all
little islands for the
four-leggeds
Sir Peter Blake (1948-2001)
We want to make a difference
William Blake (1757–1827)
remorse swallows the present
The tree which moves some to tears of
joy
the cry of a mistaken soul
A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
A dog starv'd at the master's gate
eternal delight
A fool sees not the same tree
John Blofeld
all but the very poor can become
rich
Anthony Bloom
transforming
corruption itself into a power of life
Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649-1697)
Every flower of the field, every fiber
of a plant
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919)
the stars speak many things right into our hearts
What are we, then, that we should be served by such powers?
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
everything we see
I recognized God in grass and plants
Donald Boesch
The hard-to-control sources of
nutrients
Bono (Paul Hewson)
Distance does not decide who is your
brother
Book of Common Prayer
that we may safeguard them for our
posterity
be faithful stewards of Your bounty
William Booth
a deeply embedded uneasiness
Seth Borenstein
the hottest decade ever
you can try to avoid the worst
consequences
Alaska’s melting glaciers
No. 1 reason the oceans rising
Last year was the hottest in Alaska history
Hal Borland (1900-1978)
a strong kinship with the waters of this
world
Without them we perish
floods are caused by the flow of water
downhill
a single tree is like a dancing tongue of
flame
Knowing grass, I can appreciate
All man has to do is cooperate with the
big forces
Green, the color of growth
the least pretentious and the most
important to mankind
Daniel B. Botkin
Discordant Harmonies: A new Ecology
for the Twenty-first Century
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)
The image of the frontier
the fouling of the nest
In a space ship there are no sewers
Consumption is the death of capital
a huge treasure chest in its
basement
the only sources will be his own waste
products
Steven Bouma-Prediger
Gratitude is the grammar of a grace
Charles Bowden
based on temporary resources
Mike Bowlin
the last days of the age of oil
Paul Boyer
donating often feels more like an illicit act
Consumption is presented as our right, even as a patriotic act
Sarah Roberts Boyle
Here I come creeping, creeping
everywhere
Jesse Brand
a delightful corner of the universe
planet Earth
Raymond Brand
who rules is the one who serves
the wrong side of God
Nahman Bratzlav
If a man kills a tree
Michael Braungart
The NEXT Industrial Revolution
Marianne Bray
potent haze lying over the entire Indian subcontinent
Sarah Ban Breathnach
the wasteland of illusion falls away
Patricia Brett
1.1 billion people worldwide lack clean drinking water
British Meteorological Office
Planet Earth's fifth warmest year
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956)
As soils are depleted
there are no short-cuts
James Brooke
Northwest Passage no longer a pipe dream
Paul Brooks
nobody calls the cops
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)
just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden
David Brower
thinking like a river
A Whitney Brown
oxygen and books
Bob Brown
It's between President Bush and our
grandchildren
David Brown
detectable amounts of plastics,
pesticides and heavy metals in their blood and urine
DeNeen L. Brown
There is no word for robin in Inuktitut
Greg Brown
I wanna catch some fish
Who Woulda Thunk It
George Brown
not fundamentally about science: it is
about morality
Lester R. Brown
We know what we have to do
The problem with water
As water becomes scarce
the emergence of both wind and solar
cells
equivilant to smoking two packs of
cigarettes a day
fertilizer runoff in agricultural
regions
far less risky than continuing with
business as usual
Mark Malloch Brown
the enormous potential of biotech to
improve food security
Paul Brown
lost because of dams
Peter Brown
You know that we are
living in a material world
Sherrod Brown and 35 Democratic Congressmen
POPs have devastating and
long-lasting impacts
John Browne
pose no threat to the world's natural
environment
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
the art of God
Carol Browner
Choosing the most fuel-efficient
vehicles
about 96 billion pounds of food a
year, goes to waste
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Earth
tomorrow with today
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
destroy our farms and the grass will grow
in the streets
Dirk Bryant
forests are confined primarily to
islands of parks and reserves
E.D. Buckner, M.D., PhD.
animal creation shall again
gladden a new Paradise
even the stones might "cry
out" in worship
Robert Bullard
There is no level playing field
Oliver Bullough
20 to 50 million tonnes of electronic waste is produced every year
Bumper sticker
Stop beating trees
terrible thing to waste
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations
put moral chains upon their appetites
Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
Nature's law affirm instead of
prohibit
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
I am in love with this world
George Bush
every tree is a compact between
generations
more than simply limit the damage
filling landfills faster than it can
establish new ones
Draconian limits on economic growth
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief
George W. Bush
We can't conserve our way
we will still depend on fossil fuels
Miguel Bustillo
lettuce contaminated with substantial amounts of perchlorate
nationwide price tag of perchlorate cleanup in the tens of millions
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Go forth under the open sky
Daryl Byler
As U.S. citizens we have a choice
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean
I love not Man the less, but Nature
more
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Peter Calami
extra
carbon dioxide could trigger a "positive feedback"
Lynton K. Caldwell
a crisis of mind and spirit
Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985)
the muddier of crystal waters
Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999)
the secret of growing old like you
Dick Camp
That's the wisdom of the EPA
Tony Campolo,
How To Rescue the Earth Without
Worshipping Nature
the natural universe was not created
primarily for us
Nestor Garcia Canclini
Tragedy of growth
Karel Capek (1890-1938)
Good Lord, what humus!
Robert Farrar Capon
The world exists for what it is
Thomas John Carlisle
Help us to harness the wind
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Nature
True Worth
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
The man who dies rich
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust
Thomas Carr
a gift of life
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
control of nature
The most alarming of all man's
assaults
from the moment of conception until
death
to demonstrate our mastery
should not be called
"insecticides" but "biocides"
still very limited awareness of the
nature of the threat
never alone or weary of life
We can not have peace
the central problem of our age
extraordinary fact the introduction of
poisons into a reservoir is common
mornings are strangely silent
about the sea and leave out the poetry
Jimmy (James Earl) Carter
teach our children
We must not be selfish or timid
none of us is a stranger to
environmental problems
discarded leftovers of our advanced
consumer society
Ours is the most wasteful nation on
Earth
Kerry Cartier
a garbage dump for your nuclear
wastes
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
they speak with the voice of God
Unkindness to anything means an
injustice
You can't tear up everything
an unlimited broadcasting station
Nothing is more beautiful
Edgar Castellini
An embrace of holy
"earth-poverty"
Fidel Castro
Primitive humans enjoyed greater
freedom of thought
Willa Cather (1873–1947)
resigned to the way they have to live
the
world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
U.S. Catholic Bishops
living our faith in relationship with all of God's creation
guided by a concern for generations to come
The United States should lead
Harry Caudill (1922-1990)
uprooted forests and holes in the
ground
Bill Caylor
To imply that we're flattening Appalachia is so untrue
Center For Health, Environment and Justice
Every American has dioxin in their
body
Frank & Francis Chapelle
living in cities is impossible if...
Tracy Chapman
Consume more than
you need, this is the dream
Prince Charles of Wales
other species
mankind's arrogant disregard of the
delicate balance
Cesar E. Chavez (1927-1993)
And the children are dying
Who gets the risks?
we will give a damn
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Uncle Vanya
Because men are too lazy and stupid
A tree has a right to life
the most healthy air
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
To get enough
nobody need be without anything
Civilization has run on ahead of the
soul of man
the rich asking for more money
things are not made to be used
but made to be sold
You can't have the family farm
there is no such thing as a return to
nature
the wildest animal is man
it cannot be too absurd to be
believed in this planet
Nature is not our mother
the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery
everybody seems to be thoroughly
dissatisfied
the filling of a man's native sky
with smoke
change like the clouds
Chiksika
The whole white race is a monster who
is always hungry
John Chrysostom (354?-407)
nothing has been created without
reason
From the creation learn
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
the
curse of plenty
Rodney Clapp
the cultivation of unbounded desire
creation is not just for us
living to consume
Arthur C. Clarke
a little ironic
Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
a limitless multiplication
lower animals
it will content your spirit
pick up a starving dog
call an animal dumb
Money is God
Clement of Alexandria (150?-220?)
Goods are called good because they
can be used for good
Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. President
it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future
CNN Weather Story
a heat wave scorching
The drought that's now the worst on record
Bruce Cockburn
Does anybody hear the forest fall?
Andy Coghlan
sounds like a weird animal circus
Theo Colburn
Everyone is
exposed
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Water, water, everywhere
Eileen Collins
you can see how there is deforestation
Lois M. Collins
air pollution manifests more cardiovascular disease than respiratory disease
Barry Commoner
everything is connected
nothing "goes away"
a signal of the approaching catastrophe
we must discover the source of this suicidal drive
the material tends to accumulate
somber evidence of an insidious fraud
it is very difficult to discover how it was done
in the ecosphere every effect is also a cause
we have delayed
nearly too long
James H. Cone
race was the best predictor of the location of hazardous waste facilities
citing a church leader
More Blacks live with pollution
Marla Cone
bisphenol A disrupts the way that chromosomes align
At least one-third of amphibians worldwide in danger of extinction
Steve Connor
up to 122 species of amphibians have gone extinct since 1980
confirming U.S. status as the world's biggest polluter
Kenneth A. Cook
Farmers, their families, and their land bear the resulting risks
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
We prefer to associate
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
There is no dignity quite so
impressive
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
cut their way from sea to sea
Ann Coulter
Take it. Rape it. It's yours
Douglas Coupland
You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do
Norman Cousins (1915-1990)
a warfare more deadly than the war
in Vietnam
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
Global garbage cans
man has only to sink beneath the
surface and he is free
The road to the future leads us smack
into the wall
Abraham Cowley (1618-1688)
The thirsty earth
William Cowper (1731-1800),
The Winter Walk at Noon
Rick Crawford
Invisible Crises
Cree Elder
only beavers should be allowed
Cree prophecy
money cannot be eaten
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
i thank You God
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
made me rejoice like a child
Cyprian (c. AD 200-258)
Property held them
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
like a star in heaven, glows in me
the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
The whole of humanity has a
responsibility
in the mercy of nature
Every human should have the idea of
taking care of the environment
Beth Daley
dentists the single largest
discharger of mercury into water treatment plants
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
manifestly feel pleasure and pain
Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
we accept a good deal of murder
Can we reasonably expect happiness
from an insatiable appetite
continually increasing consumption is
just not possible
to identify happiness with wealth
D.R. Davies (1889-1958)
dogma of increasing wants
Men can no longer be judged to be poor
Material consumption is endowed with a
false infinity
this transformation which bedevils our
entire economic activity
how to guarantee the satisfaction of
wants
W.H. Davies (1871-1940)
men aim true for death or wound
Marva J. Dawn
difficult to live in a Christian way in
a consumer culture
idolatry of possessions plays to the
deeper idolatry
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
We are all guilty of concupiscence
luxury has developed at the expense of
necessities
It is a miracle to me because I do not
understand it
Richard A. Denison
a base of materials for robust,
efficient manufacturing industries
Joseph DesJardins
business does have an ethical responsibility
by-products are themselves the resources for new productivity
spend interest but not capital
Calvin DeWitt
the trashed gallery of earth's Maker
tearing a page out of sacred scripture
Human beings have become the predominant destructive
force on Earth
destroying the larger Creation which sustains us
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
the clouds are mean
Baba Dioum
we will conserve only what we love
Paula Dobbyn
government lost $126 million in 1998
from logging
John Donne (1572-1631)
Why are we by all creatures waited on?
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
kiss the earth
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and
golden bee
do
not pride yourself on superiority to the animals
My brother asked the birds to forgive him
In his rapture he was weeping even over those
stars
they bear witness to the mystery of God
Love the animals, love the plants, love
each separate thing
You
have desires and so satisfy them
the joy in the
world has grown less
William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
The river as plaintiff
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
hope from the flowers
Susan Drake
our environment of concrete, steel,
plastics, and artificial fibers
Rene J. Dubos (1901-1982)
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature
Alan Durning,
salvaging the present by savaging the
future
dramatically curtail its use of
resources
polluted tracts of suburban
development
Christian de Duve
the irreplaceable loss of vital clues
Henry van Dyke
All Thy works with joy surround Thee
Bob Dylan
There must be some way out of here
they con you into thinking you're the
one
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Ben C. Eastman (1812-1856)
sufficient to supply all the wants of
the citizens for all time to come
Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935)
gripped by God's spirit
Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327)
God in all things
Ecologist's motto
downstream
Philip M. Eden
a sterile form of materialism
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)
imprison the rays of the sun
we don't know one millionth of one
percent about anything
David Edwards
Hot Air: Global Warming and Business as
Usual
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Calm of nature
the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness
Timothy Egan
people just can't believe we may be
running out of water
Alaska harder hit by global climate change than any place in the world
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Worst Years of Our Lives
ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain
Paul R. Ehrlich
their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours
Juliet Eilperin
half of all freshwater fish from America's lakes unsafe for childbearing women
major Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic
2005 is on track to be the hottest year on record
warmest
year in recorded history
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
trained to worship acquisitive
success
I see in nature
Our task must be to free ourselves
It may intimidate the human race
Look deep into nature
watch the stars and from them learn
two things inspire me to awe
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
a responsibility to manage wisely
Peter Eisler
about 22,000 cancers occurred from
external radioactive fallout
Elihu
Do you know how the clouds hang poised
He brings the clouds to punish men
George Eliot, pseudonym of Marian Evans, (1819-1880)
we must plant more trees
Animals are such agreeable friends
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Swing up into the apple tree
This is the death of the earth
A wrong attitude towards nature
the deformation of humanity
a strong brown god
The whole earth is our hospital
We are the stuffed men
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
within reach of predatory human hands
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence
the rich had given the example and set society on the acquisitive path
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
For Nature beats in perfect tune
What is a weed?
the daily bread of the eyes
one acorn
Things are in the saddle
They measure by what each has, not by what each is
Nature is too thin a screen
The Earth laughs
Like God it useth me
But in the serious landscape lone
the great Planter plants
the trees are imperfect men
Frederick Engels (1820-1895)
naked self-interest
In place of the old wants, we find
new wants
Environment Canada
Sustainable development can be defined
Environment News Network
Dramatic Thinning of Arctic Ice Found
Satellite Images of Arctic
Declassified
Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue
Sea
Americans live within 10 miles of a
polluted lake, river, stream
Environment News Service
3.6 ton shipment of ivory from Kenya seized
half of all land in South Asia has lost
agricultural potential
Only one third of Europe's trees are
healthy
children at greater risk of
developing cancer
how quickly ecosystems fragment across
international borders
2000 has continued the run of warm years
the exact pattern of brain damage that
doctors see in Parkinson's disease
communities with uncontrolled toxic
waste sites
greatest amounts of toxic
pollution to waterways
totally exempt from federal oversight
and protections
link between lead on the job and
Alzheimer's
a "body burden" of toxic
organochlorines
serious water pollution at U.S.
beaches
nuclear weapons sites will never be
cleaned up
worst droughts in the state's history
EAFs emit 15.6 metric tons of mercury
each year
world wide losses totaling many
hundreds of billions of dollars
losses from natural disasters estimated
at $150 billion over the next 10 years
375,000 babies born each year at
risk of neurological problems
we cannot afford clean air and
water and health for our children
there were twice as many hurricanes in the
Atlantic
Crop production limited by salinity on 40
percent of the world's irrigated land
a warning to the world we cannot take our
water systems for granted
October 2001 set drought records in
several states
Women living within two miles of waste
landfill site have 40 percent greater risk
use of atrazine in the environment is
an uncontrolled experiment
Sudden Oak Death discovered on California redwoods and Douglas firs
warmest year on record is 1998, 2002 will be close second
3.4 million deaths each year linked to inadequate water
water is a pre-requisite
to all other human rights
water demand increasing 3 times faster than population
depleted uranium from weapons contaminated local supplies of drinking water
miniscule blood lead levels impair intelligence
U.S. understated Agent Orange
use
Prostate cancer two to four
times higher among pesticide applicators
Where is the demand for Roundup Ready wheat?
hold
responsible the companies which ruin our market
25% of the electricity and motor vehicle fuels used in the U.S. by 2025
Environmental Protection Agency
a particularly large impact on the
natural environment
we generated approximately 229.9 million tons of MSW in 1999
Total MSW generation in 2006 was 251 million tons
Louise Erdrich
helpless without its protective
embrace
John Scotus Eriugena (810-877)
Two shoes
Levi Eshkol
blood in our veins
Jose Escrivá (1902-1975)
He has much who needs least
Euripides (480-405 B.C.)
Immortal Nature's ageless harmony
Evangelical Environmental Network
a perverted stewardship
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
special roles on behalf of the whole of
creation
Stuart Ewen
in the garbage crisis we confront the
underlying truth
E-Wire
the American Nile
the earth is shrinking
400,000,000 gallons of chemical
termiticides pumped onto American soil
Ezekiel (5th century BC)
Must
you also muddy the rest with your feet?
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Barbara Farhar
pattern of preferences for using
energy efficiency
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
to hold the earth mutual and intact
Robert Finch
Recurring cycles of the year
Jim Fisher
home to more EPA Superfund sites than
any other county in the nation
the complexity of chemical cocktails
in modern high-tech industrial manufacturing
John Fitzpatrick
Climate change becomes a financial issue
Christopher Flavin
The bottom of the oil barrel
far less risky than continuing with
business as usual
Michael A. Fletcher
cash-strapped schools opt to build
on or near toxic waste sites
David Flick
Thursday's high broke the previous record
Archbishop Harry Flynn
should be leaders, not resistant followers
Dian Fossey (1932-1986)
concentrate more on the preservation of the future
Richard J. Foster
Graciousness, courtesy, compassion
God was the sovereign of the land
We are not to rape the earth
a bold new move from a consumer economy
Deliberate and calculated waste is
central aspect of American economy
it cuts the heart right out of our compassion
we may be drawing down the final curtain
Maggie Fox
Unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals
Michael W. Fox
the appalling incidence of cancer,
sterility, defects, and abnormalities in humans
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
temples of the Divinity
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
"All Creatures of Our God and
King"
Sister Water
exclude from the shelter of
compassion and pity
Anne Frank (1829-1945)
The best remedy for those who are
afraid
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Instead of its filling a vacuum, it
makes one
All human situations have their
inconveniences
He who multiplies riches
Thomas L. Friedman
our right to indulge
Friends of the Earth
Taxpayers should be outraged
Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel(1782-1852)
If humans are to fully attain their destinies
Let us protect our children
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Afluence
Modern
man is alienated from himself
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
be a swinger of birches
Tree at my window, window tree
Earth's the right place for love
Lord, I have loved
Your sky
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
The World Game
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Great wealth and content
To smell a turf of fresh earth
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
satisfying wants that create the wants
Sharon Gallagher
we are stewards for a season
Stephen Gaghan
War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Our world has enough
moral progress can be judged
You must be the change
What is a man if he is not a thief
unlimited capacity of the plant world
to sustain man
wildlife is decreasing in the jungles
High thinking is inconsistent with a
complicated material life
John W. Gardner
More and
more Americans are appalled
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)
I am I plus my surroundings
Bill Gates
No king ever had anything like I have
Craig M. Gay
we continue to choose it on a
more-or-less daily basis
Bob Geldof
morally repulsive and intellectually absurd
Ross Gelbspan
we pump at least six billion tons
a 1-in-2000 year event
rewiring the entire globe
hopelessly stuck in uncertainty
We have no right tampering
The coming eruption of carbon
emissions
mosquitoes have moved to higher
elevations
$89 billion
we will soon be crossing into climate
hell
Nature's
message is remarkably simple
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
not the mineral rights
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Trees are poems tha earth writes upon the sky
Margaret Gilman
I am the mown grass, dying at your feet
Laura Gilpin
a magic thing
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
Is a park any better than a coal mine?
Jackie Alan Giuliano
death of other creatures for
convenience
we cannot afford clean air and
water and health for our children
hunters left about 6,000 tons of
lead shot annually in United States
Peter Gleick
the future of climate
Wendy Glenn
there is no more West
Dan Glickman
into the mouths of the hungry and
not into the mouth of the dumpster
about 96 billion pounds of food a
year, goes to waste
Anne Glynn-Mackoul
a planet ravaged by greed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A plant is like a self-willed man
Nikki & David Goldbeck
millions of pounds of toxic
chemical
Murray Goodwin
And the people to stop it Are fast asleep
Mikhail Gorbachev
Water, like religion and ideology,
has the power to move millions
fresh water is the major ecological
problem of this moment
Don't waste it!
Al Gore
the fever is rising
the global environmental crisis
We have now used taxpayers' dollars
a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal
John Gorka
Possessions cannot
save you
Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984)
should be touched gently
graffito
Be silent
Billy Graham
to take the lead in caring for the
earth
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
In a time of ecological emergency
Günther Grass
The future is already in place
Gregory the Great, (540–604)
and no man wonders
Greek proverb
Think not on what you lack
Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell (1865-1940)
the rent we pay for our room on
this earth
an absolute rock-bottom necessity
Michael Grunwald
spurting blood and shedding skin
as if dunked into boiling water
Ray Grizzle
I guess
you proved it. We were wrong
Guujaaw
we are the ones who live with the
consequence
John Gummer
global action
William Gurnall (1655)
The possessions God allows us to
have
Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858-1932)
You are nearer God's heart in a garden
Joan Dye Gussow
Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce &
Agriculture
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
This land is your land
you can do some work for me
keep that oil a-rollin',
rollin' over
the sea
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Charles Haar
the heirs to their cities' problems
Haggai (c.520 B.C.)
the heavens have withheld their dew
Leonie Haimson
The evidence continues to accumulate
the fifth warmest globally
Danny Hakim
average fuel economy falls to lowest level in 22 years
catching up to the costs of global warming
Carl T. Hall
link between atrazine and health problems in
amphibians
Joseph Hall (1574-1656)
Every creature is a letter
Brian Halweil
As water becomes scarce
the emergence of both wind and solar
cells
equivilant to smoking two packs of
cigarettes a day
fertilizer runoff in agricultural
regions
Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
We know we belong to the land
Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not accumulate wealth while
millions are hungry
Charles J. Hanley
We are moving into a warmer world
Brian Hansen
American taxpayers on the hook for
some $80 billion in damages
James E. Hansen,
more global warming
The climate system
The planet is out of equilibrium
Jay Hanson
neither technology nor
"prices" can repeal the laws of thermodynamics
Garrett Hardin
Freedom in a commons brings ruin
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
taking a full look at the worst
Paul Harrison
The poor tread lightest
Haudenosaunee
Statement to the World
We are part of everything
Stanley M. Hauerwas
The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school
Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
leaking on the scale of a ruptured
supertanker
Julie Hauserman
bad news about pressure-treated
wood isn't widely known
tons of
pressure-treated wood being dumped in landfills
Vaclav Havel
The salvation of the world
responsibility expressed through action
no sense of responsibility higher than his own personal survival
the omnipresent dictatorship of consumption
Sterling Hayden
Which
shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?
Denis Hayes
today's deadly threat
Mark Heard
changing when the world says to change
Hebrew proverb
He who seeks more
Astrid Heiberg
climate change
Martha Heil
the frequency of heat strokes
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
ages quickly
Rachel Henderlite
Irresponsible spending
Nelson Henderson
true meaning of life is to plant
trees
Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
a burden of care in getting riches
Cor Herkströter
Despite the many remaining
uncertainties
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
Man lives, always, in tension
Todd Hettenbach
industries send millions of pounds of waste materials to fertilizer companies
Thor Heyerdahl
get another vision of Nature
John Hick
Evil and the God of Love
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
The earth should not be injured
The earth is at the same time mother
Erik Hill
dumping more than 1.8 trillion gallons of
water into Columbia Bay
Peter Himmelmann
you bought it
Cardinal Arthur Hinsley (1865-1943)
the degrading attitude of paganism
Hippocrates (B.C. 460-370)
Excess
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Enough
The unpredictability inherent in human
affairs
Erin Hollingshead
Indiana women PBDE blood concentrations 20-70 times higher than European levels
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
All felled, felled, are all felled
To mend her we end her
nature is never spent
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Odes
Hosea (8th century B.C.)
a covenant for them with the beasts
the country is in mourning
Robert Lee Hotz
in the Los Angeles area the landscape
rises and falls more than 4 inches each year
Jane Houlihan
3,200 U.S. outdoor firing ranges
are so highly contaminated with lead
Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947),
the petty work of photographing the
corpse
Nature's farming summed up in a few
words
artificial men and women
there is no waste
Chris Howes
The Spice of Life: Biodiversity and
the Extinction Crisis
Hrvoje Hranjski
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes the clearest sign global warming has begun
M. King Hubbert
the fortunes of the world's human
population
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Let the rain kiss you
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
En Voyage, Alpes et Pyrenees
Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Nature pleases, attracts, delights
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital
Chrissie Hynde
"My City Was Gone"
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David Ignatius
a plaintiff lawyer's dream
Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
there are inevitably two kinds of slaves
The energy crisis focuses concern on scarcity of fodder for slaves
will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist
a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy
slaves
past the last turnoff from a hyperindustrial Armageddon
a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing
road which ultimately leads to universal pollution and frustration
We can only live the changes we wish to see
Independent Online
Emperor penguins act as indicators of
climate change
The Independent UK
Extreme
weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert
Brian Ingalls
the forgiveness of nature
Vladimir Isachenkov
the most radioactive place on
the planet
Isaiah (c.760-690 B.C.)
beat their swords into plowshares
there is no more room
The wolf will live with the lamb
The earth dries up and withers
they shall repair the ruined cities
The rivers shall become foul
the trees of the field will clap their
hands
no wood-cutter has come up against us
The wild animals honor me
Issac of Syria (c. 700 A.D.)
What is a heart of mercy?
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