Author Index for Environmental Quotations
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Dr. Richard Jackson
One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco
Wes Jackson
land is not a resource
land and people transcend
the loss of cultural information
the timeless purpose of the original
material
Modern agriculture coasts
always for the purpose of
exploitation
That which is sacred
Christ's metaphors are biological
to define our well being in
material terms
soil pollution is an expense of
production
externalized to a voiceless
environment
wear hats advertising the corporate
lords
the first thing commanded
Karen Jacobs
Blacks more likely than whites to live near polluted areas
Mick Jagger
I can't get no
James (d. c. 62 A.D.)
Come now you, rich people
William James (1842-1910)
The praises of poverty
Lives based on having are less free
Nityanand Jayaraman
export
to the United States 286 tons of waste contaminated with mercury
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Never buy what you do not want
Were we directed from Washington
Material
abundance without character is the path of destruction
Douglas Jehl
The signs of unsustainability are widespread and spreading
Jeremiah (c.628-586 B.C.)
You have defiled the land
There is no one who cares
a desolate waste without inhabitants
the land has been ruined and laid waste
Jesus
Do not store up
Do not worry
Look at the birds
Be on your guard
Other seed fell
if you have not been trustworthy with
someone else's property
If that is how God clothes the grass of
the field
All by itself the soil produces grain
Let nothing be wasted
nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves
Job
But ask the animals
the waters wear away the stones
He stirs up the sea
If my land has cried out against me
Does the rain have a father?
where the light is distributed
Drought and heat snatch away
there is hope for a tree
If he withholds the waters, they dry up
the prophet Joel (c. 835 BC)
fire has devoured the open pastures
He sends you abundant showers
John the Apostle(c. A.D. 100)
All living things
Love in action
they were scorched by the fierce heat
the leaves of the tree are for the
healing of the nations
A third of the waters turned bitter
a third of the trees were burned up
They were told not to harm the grass
John of Damascus (679?-749)
the most beautiful of God's creations
Pope John Paul II
The earth will not continue
the civilization of consumption
all suffer the negative consequences
One cannot use with impunity
blind submission to consumerism
The ecological crisis
the plundering of natural resources
this poor South will judge the rich North
satisfaction of personal aspirations
become the ultimate goal of life
how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?
We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying...
What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn?
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse
Sr. Elizabeth Johnson CSJ
Spiritually, trees play a unique role
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
fight on a thousand battlegrounds
The debris of civilization litters the
landscapes
we have not used our waters well
No one has the right to use America's rivers as a sewer
It stains our cities and towns with
ugliness
A prudent nation must look ahead
man's most ancient possessions
beauty and order in our environment are
not frills
We may create a hostile world
condemned to wither because of its
shortsightedness
We must leave them a glimpse of the
world as it was in the beginning
when winds fail to blow
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Every man is rich or
poor
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)
fewness of your wants
Chief Joseph a.k.a. In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (1840-1904)
The country was made without lines of
demarcation
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Man feels himself isolated in the
cosmos
a new world that dominates nature
the human heart answered by a bank
account
Sebatian Junger
freak waves of eighty or ninety feet
Barbara Jurgensen
And the people to stop it Are fast asleep
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Tonio K.
Stuck
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
elephants cannot be reduced to the value of their teeth
Michin Kaku
We are literally made of stardust
Kalyani
transnational
companies destroying a wealth of genetic resources
Allen Kanner
the kind of behavior where you do
things you know are damaging to yourself
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
treatment of animals
Robert D. Kaplan
national security issue
Marc Kaufman
birth weights up after pesticide ban
Decline in Winter Arctic Ice Linked to Greenhouse Gases
Jane Kay
Leaks from underground tank sites threaten
the drinking water supply of millions
John Keats (1795-1821)
The poetry of earth is never dead
Sylvia C. Keesmaat
make possible the free praise of our creaturely kin
the covenant is with "every living creature"
there is no such thing as "away"
war with the very biotic, genetic, chemical and physical structures of creation
only one voice gets heard
John Kellas
not allowing for the laws of physics
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
the hand of the world
more welcome than the most luxurious
Persian rug
the sky is brighter than the earth
Erin Kelly
150 million Americans recycle
Petra Kelly (1947-1992)
the unthinkable
Penny Kemp
How to be green?
We are unravelling nature
Thomas a Kempis (c.1379-1471)
a mirror of life
Bishop Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
all creatures here below
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
the vulnerability of our planet
to hand down undiminished to those who
come after us
Our most basic common link
match its wealth with our wisdom
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
over half of America's water pollution
there is nothing radical about clean air or water
reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
The diversity of the phenomena of
Nature is so great
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
in thy shiny car in the night
Charles Kettering (1876-1958)
We should all be concerned
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
more blessed to be able to do without
one needs little
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
only God can make a tree
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or
Community?
to give luxuries to the classes
shift from a "thing-oriented"
society to a "person-oriented" society
the creative maladjustment of a
nonconforming minority
all life is interrelated
a practical materialism as pernicious as communism
Warren King
we don't understand what pesticides
do
Barbara Kingsolver
We are engaged in a serious effort to cancel this insurance policy
can't be summarized in an evening news wrap-up
If they aren’t grown out as crops year after year, they die
we define our national interest
in terms of oil fields and pipelines
unselfish motives will follow as we wise up
There must be limits
The
writing has been on the wall for some years now
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense
More and more of us are listening for the silent alarm
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
God gives all men all earth to love
But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water
Alex Kirby
brominated flame
retardents concentrated in the Norwegian Arctic
70% of mercury emissions of human origin come from coal-fired power stations
Jamie Lincoln Kitman
a potent neurotoxin whose sickening
and deadly effects
countries who continue to poison
their people
William Kittredge
encounters with the
disenfranchised
it began to die as we went on
manipulating it
It was our dream that had led us
to these processes
We were doing God's labor
David Kohn
DDT exposures cause problems 30 years later
David C. Korten
corporations
are ill suited to building just societies
Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
turned
us into the nuts and bolts for our tools
Dennis Kucinith
Sustainability is the path to peace
James Howard Kunstler
we are headed into a social and economic maelstrom so
severe
Robert Kuttner
the narrow interests of extractive
industries
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Gérard Labrunie, a.k.a Gérard de Nerval (1808-1885)
Man, do you think yours is the only soul?
Ladies Home Journal
Imagine a world in which there is no disease
Winona LaDuke
excrement of industrial society
devastated a number of Indigenous
communities
What law gives that right to them?
We have to figure out how to leave
things alone
to keep an eye on the Indians
Our forests are not for toilet paper
This river will not be dammed
constant intervention into other
people's lands
capitalism is inherently out of
order with natural law
Bill Lambrecht
must take decisive action to restore the
Missouri River
Philip Landrigan, MD
using our children as
experimental animals
Cleveland Lane
public fear of chemicals is a disease
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)
The prairies were dust
Lao-Tzu (c. B.C. 550)
there is no substitute for it
A wise man does not accumulate for
himself
enough is enough
Frances Moore Lappé,
your most direct interaction
worldwide hunger
a vote for the kind of world we want
to live in
Lucy Larcom (1826-1893)
Plants a hope
Las Vegas Sun
Three of Antarctica's largest glaciers
have lost up to 150 feet of thickness
Jonathan Lash
they are fast becoming a myth
Kalle Lasn
overconsumption
We ourselves have been branded
Paani Laupepa
freedom to live where our ancestors have
lived
Dr. Tony LaVina
what kind of world we want to live in
William Law (1686-1761)
wants which disturb
All that is sweet, delightful, and
amiable
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
Cat Lazaroff
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
the exact pattern of brain damage that
doctors see in Parkinson's disease
EAFs emit 15.6 metric tons of mercury
each year
public at risk from high levels of
arsenic leaching out of pressure treated wood
the permafrost is starting to give back its
carbon
The Forest Service's timber sale program
loses money
October 2001 set drought records in
several states
use of atrazine in the environment is
an uncontrolled experiment
1.6 billion pounds of wood preservatives used each year
Perennial sea ice could vanish entirely by the end of this century
Pamela Leach
Inclusive security acknowledges our mutual
dependence
William Leach
the most decisive power of all
a society preoccupied with
consumption
Geoffrey Lean
earth is now hotter than at any time in
recorded human history
Victor Lebow
we need things consumed
Tom Lehrer
Pollution
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
The animals do judge
closer to the image and further from reality
We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind
the beating of the heart of the tree
more brilliant than diamonds
we are separated from the stars
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Truly man is the king of beasts
Aldo Leopold (1886-1948)
the last drop of utility
the last word
in ignorance
The
outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century
land doctoring
the
government will fix it
We abuse land
you
cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left
what is ethically and aesthetically
right
The oldest task in human history
keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle
spots
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
to restore peace to the animal world
Nature will begin to come right
to talk about 'misery'
Because God created the Natural
He translates His glory into
multiple forms
Prosperity knits a man to the world
almost more important than either
producing or using them
We choose the jungle
either a lawful exercise or a
sacrilegious abuse
My own eyes are not enough for me
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
a man's religion
the way of a whole human being
the land remains
Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey
Christianity and the Rights of
Animals
Sam Lister
use of toxic insecticides and leukaemia
John Locke (1632-1704)
As much land as a man tills
Gene Logsdon
an angry chorus of criticism upon the
university
Michael E. Long
What’s
to be done with 52,000 tons of radioactive spent fuel?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
longing for the secret of the sea
stars of earth, these golden flowers
Nature is a revelation of God
John Louma
promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th
plagued by lapses in service, soaring costs, corruption and worse
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Balancing on the Brink of Extinction
Sydney Lovett (1890-1979)
take a good look at something not made with hands
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
the only hard thing is to begin
Joan Lowy
thirsty golf courses drive environmental protests
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
I would still plant my apple tree
every green tree is far more glorious
Francesca Lyman
The Greenhouse Trap
breast cancer rates were higher in
the 339 counties
If mercury is so safe, why do they
try to hide it?
John J. Lynch SJ
The laws of nature are written deep
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George MacDonald (1824-1905)
making a good beast
to have what we want
Highlander's Last Song
nature exists primarily for her face
whose
very wetness is delight to every inch of the human body
Norman Maclean
a river runs through it
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
and all at once, the rain!
Mother Mary Madeleva CSC
I like to go to Marshall Field's
James Madison (1751-1836)
We have staked the whole future of
the American civilization
David Mahan
who rules is the one who serves
the wrong side of God
Marya Mannes
we are diminishing our future
Brennan Manning,
cultural propaganda
a sign of contradiction
we can't stop eating, shopping, or
consuming
Lynn Margulis,
another symptom of human arrogance
Jason Mark
50 percent more global warming
pollution than cars
Ed Markey
What’s the problem? It's not rocket science – it is
auto mechanics!
Don Marquis (1878-1937)
america was once a paradise of
timberland
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882)
given to him for usufruct alone
forest insures permanence and regularity of natural springs
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
naked self-interest
an extension of the realm of the alien
powers
In place of the old wants, we find
new wants
too
many useful things results in too many useless people
Marie Marzi
highest levels of contamination,
cancers and birth defects ever documented
Alberta Mason
There have got to be better choices
for us
George Matheson (1842-1902)
Ye who torture the beast of the
field
Thomas H. Maugh II
Dust Bowl year of 1934 the new record holder
Peter Maurin (1877-1949)
I want a change and a radical change
Shannon McCaffrey
an additional 80 percent reduction
is needed
Colman McCarthy
Breaking America's oil addiction
James McCarthy
no debate among any statured
scientists
William McDonough
products must be designed from the very
beginning
Susan Chernak McElroy
the relationship between humans
and animals is crucial
Usha Lee McFarling
strongest evidence yet that humans to
blame for global warming
Ian McHarg
not really necessary to destroy
nature
John McKenzie
wealth through the exploitation of
nature
Doug McKenzie-Mohr
to adopt different lifestyles
Bill McKibben,
decreation
Christmas is a school for
consumerism
we are not the center of the
universe
you harvest every week
mindless worship
temperature will increase
something of a binge
The End of Nature
what were we built for?
To strip mine the future
at the complete expense of all
around us
never figured out a way to hate our neighbors more effectively
global warming went from theoretical problem to 'holy
#$%@!'
Bishop George D. McKinney, Jr.
This Is My Father's World
Brian D. McLaren
the tragedy of consumerism
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
On Spaceship Earth
Anthony McMichael
now living beyond the Earth's capacity
Ralph McTell
this earth is in my bones
Andy Mead
converting
landfill gas into electricity
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
meditation and water are wedded
forever
Why did the old Persians hold the
sea holy?
Chico Mendez (1944-1988)
First I thought I was fighting
Jonathan Merritt
similar to ripping pages from the Bible
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
to go through life with an empty head
stops on the way to its true end
they will sell you even your rain
sky seems to be a pure, cooler blue
do not trust anything that has been
fabricated
we have fallen into a senseless idolatry
of production and consumption
Alden Meyer
We can stem global warming
Al Meyerhoff
shoot first and ask questions
later
Trust the government? Why should we?
avoid unnecessary and involuntary
exposures to cancer-causing agents
Micah (c.8th century BC)
the earth will be desolate
The Midrash (400-500 A.D.)
Man enters the world with closed
hands
Myriam Miedzian
Mixing
oil and testosterone
John S. Mill (1806-1873)
solitude in the presence of natural
beauty
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
God, I can push the grass apart
the soul can split the sky in two
Henry Miller (1891–1980)
To call such activity progress
nowhere else is the divorce between man and nature so complete
Michael Milstein
Forest Service accounting rules were
so loose
John Milton (1608-1674)
Bone of my bone
Milwaukee Journal
no rugs left
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The United States has contributed most to
creating the problem
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
Landfills are often viewed as nuisances
The true cost of managing materials
landfilling will become Minnesota's
predominant waste management method
consumers purchase at a rate that
leads to constant waste growth
72% of waste could
be recycled
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
6 tons of carbon dioxide
Chief John Miswagon
alternatives to this kind of
short-sighted destruction
Alanna Mitchell
contaminants in the lakes hurt human
health
delicate
salt balance of the Atlantic Ocean has altered dramatically
a
quarter of the children living in Harlem are asthmatic
Joni Mitchell
"Big Yellow Taxi"
Martin Mittelstaedt
would raise global sea levels by about
five metres
threaten coral reefs, spread
malaria and cause shrubs to sprout in Alaska
a near-total collapse in their
immune systems
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533–1592)
abundance produces greed
Whoso hath his mind on taking
Peter Montague, Ph.D
deaths that have been allowed by
issuing permits
James Montgomery (1771-1854)
The Lord God's voice is heard among the trees
Rick Montgomery
Shrimp die. Fish flee.
Capt. Charles Moore
World's largest landfill is in the middle of the ocean
Douglas Morata
Teach us the ways or strip us of the very last remnants of our life
David Morris
The case for recycling is strong
George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
Woodman, spare that tree!
Jim Morrison (1943-1971)
What have they done to the earth?
Toni Morrison
Grab this land!
Jim Motavalli
U.S. currently gobbles up some 200 million tons of wood products annually
pulp & paper industry third-largest polluter in Canada and the U.S.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
I only feel angry when I see waste
Bill Moyers
He did not stop with human beings
MSNBC.com
this trend is projected to continue
rapidly downward
John Muir (1838-1914)
steeped with God
rigidly alone like marbles of polished
stone
save them from fools
going home
This grand show is eternal
something that we know exactly nothing
about
These temple destroyers, devotees of
raging commercialism
wilderness is a necessity
When one tugs at a single thing in nature
I never saw a discontented tree
every tree was excited
None may wholly escape the good of
Nature
Nature's peace will flow into you
Go quietly, alone; no harm will
befall you
Every landscape seems doomed to be
trampled and harried
the healing power of Nature
Nature is a good mother
The universe would be incomplete
without man
In the making of every animal every other
animal has been recognized
Every animal, plant, and crystal
controverts it in the plainest terms
trees cannot run away
between every two pines
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
the dogma of increasing wants
In the name of economy a thousand
wasteful devices would be invented
Cullen Murphy
the problem is finding significant
outlets
one of the largest man-made
structures in North America
the most appealing of all the
possible approaches
Norman Myers
We are already engaged in World War III
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Ralph Nader
their private sewers
solar energy has not been opened up
Federal policy has failed to promote an
energy system
good ancestors
Richard Nafziger
plundering the raw materials of the people of Africa, Asia, and America
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
I think that I shall never see
Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef
We are not masters of this Earth
Allan Nation
The really hard part is keeping it simple
The Nation (independent), Bangkok
The average American already consumes
National Academy of Sciences
Surface mining destroys natural communities completely and dramatically
National Climatic Data Center
warmest since reliable records began
surface temperature was the warmest on record
National Geographic
we become agents of calamity
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
unprecedented warming in the cold Arctic
second warmest year on record
2nd and 3rd warmest on record
National Recycling Coalition
$236 billion in annual revenues
Jeanne A. Naujeck
There is no safe level of blood
lead
Herbert Needleman
they get bigger proportional doses
Gaylord Nelson (1916-2005)
that is the wealth of the country
the ultimate test of man's conscience
Jeff Nesmith
leaking on the scale of a ruptured
supertanker
New England Proverb
New York City web site
Fresh Kills Landfill
Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998)
a worthwhile future
production for the sake of
consumption
a world totally different from
anything known before
a Christian should be a
nonconformist
a
society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts
Beverley Nichols
a delectable form of defeat
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
The mastery of nature
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
inviting the environmental crisis of
the future
the price of energy does not include
all of the social costs of producing it
we are not going to allow the
environmental issue to destroy the system
It is simplistic to seek ecological
perfection
Queen Noor of Jordan
an ultimate obscenity
Kathleen Norris
maybe it's our sky
Elliot A. Norse
tell the dirt-poor people of Brazil
Gale Norton
forests have grown like a cancer
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Barack Obama
Environmentalism
is not an upper-income issue
Doug O'Harra
ice cover could disappear entirely by
2050
glaciers shrinking even faster than
scientists thought
Ohio State Research
Ohio was seen as a
safe place for landfills
Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982)
importance of the intangibles
hard core of wilderness
the coming era can well be that of a
richer civilization
The decisions are ours
Paul O'Neill
People with money are going to have to
pay
Michael Oppenheimer
we're distorting this atmospheric
balance
Gordon H. Orians
Cumulative Threats to the
Environment
P.J. O'Rourke
nobody wants to help mom with the dishes
David W. Orr
That is our fault ad we should start now
it is a crisis of mind
No institutions in modern society are better equipped
We have to reconceptualize agriculture
George Orwell (1903-1950)
All left-wing parties in
industrialized countries are at bottom a sham
Osama bin Laden
so you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries
Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
Take rest
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David Pace
More Blacks live with pollution
Vance Packard (1914-1996)
make Americans into voracious,
wasteful, compulsive consumers
pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence,
materialism as the American character
Earl F. Palmer
The earth needs rest, too
Fred Palmer
the
good Lord put them on earth for us to use
Parker Palmer
to
lead a private life which recognizes or ignores public need
Theophrastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus (1493/94-1541)
great stars often bring great changes
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The pagans
Rivers are roads which move
Ka Memong Patayan
A patent on seeds is a patent on
freedom
Alan Stewart Paton (1903-1988)
The ground is holy
Paul (c.A.D. 5-67),
the firstborn over all creation
the secret of being content
creation has been groaning
this world in its present form is
passing away
I will eat no flesh for evermore
neither he who plants nor he who waters is
anything
the splendor of heavenly bodies is one kind
Tim Pawlenty
we have the opportunity to show the way
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
the destiny of science to
exterminate the human race
Rabbi Stephen Pearce
there will be no one to set it right
after you
Federico Peña
do not underestimate the difficulty
Bill Penden
a future idea whose time is past
William Penn (1644-1718)
whose rules are few, plain, and most
reasonable
Pennsylvania State Constitution
people have a right to clean air, pure water
Shimon Peres
we have to defer to nature and its
needs
Susan Perlman
More is contrary to the Creator's
design
Eugene Peterson
Too much happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another
John Petit-Senn (1792-1870)
what we enjoy, constitutes our
abundance
Almira Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)
often are the beauties of nature
unheeded by man
where we may read of God
Philippine Strategy For Sustainable Development
development without destruction
Channing E. Phillips
Environmental rape
Eric Pianin
cash-strapped schools opt to build
on or near toxic waste sites
exhaust from diesel engines likely causes lung cancer
Thomas R. Pickering
There has to be give and take
Stuart Pimm
This is not like Jurassic Park
John Piper
Enough for us
We can be content
Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)
Breaking New Ground
our forest policy is not to preserve
the forests
Planet Ark
devastation of the world's largest
rain forest
Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
Lust of avarice
Jeff Plungis
failed to make good on promises to
end the use of harmful mercury
Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
Nothing is cheap
Gary Polakovic
between 20 and 200 early deaths
each day in America's biggest cities
Michael Pollan
the vegan has a "serious clash of interests"
an unusual amount of cultural confusion on the subject of animals
the earth's stomach
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
But Satan now is wiser than of yore
All are but parts of one stupendous
whole
Content to breathe his native air
Sir George Porter
If sunbeams were weapons of war
Sandra Postel
far less risky than continuing with
business as usual
the blue arteries of the earth!
Neil Postman
if something could be done it should
be done
Winkie Pratney
he caught up creation's curse
wholly lost its sense of stewardship
Eugenia Price (1916-1996)
We are a material-mad race of people
Dr. Humphrey Primatt
no natural right to abuse and
torment
John Prine
"Paradise"
Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
a great deal to learn from trees
Proverbs:
Amish Proverb
Bible: the needs of his animal
Bible: one eager to get rich
Bible: Where there is no vision
Bible: give me neither poverty nor
riches
Bible: He who tends a fig tree
Bible: the eyes of man
Use it up
threads of one loom
'Tis a gift to be simple
the old bucket
well runs dry
Water Wasteland
West African
He who seeks more
Think not on what you lack
Do not cut down the tree
When you plant a tree, never plant
only one
Welsh Proverb
Costa Rican
Psalms
what is man that you are mindful of him?
the skies proclaim the work of his hands
He has set a tent for the sun
The earth is the Lord's
all your waves and breakers have swept over me
all the animals of the forest are
mine
The river of God is full of water
Your carts overflow with abundance
Let grain abound throughout the land
caused waters to run down like rivers
by his power he led out the south wind
faithfulness springs forth from the earth
at your rebuke the waters fled
wine that gladdens the heart of man
you renew the face of the ground
Those who go down to the sea in ships
the earth he has given to man
turn your eyes away from worthless things
He makes lightnings for the rain
wild animals and all cattle
Dr. Francis Putz
The rate of sea level rise may increase
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Dan Quayle
Pollution
Anna Quindlen
Tomorrow's coming
we do high-stakes battle with Mother Nature
Daniel Quinn
what kind of monsters were these
people?
Qur'an
He it is Who has created man from the
water
Allah has created from water every
living creature
Qwatsinas
We must protect the forests
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