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Environmental Wisdom
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beautiful skies of island Pag
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."
John James Audubon
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Henrik Tikkanen
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader
Nature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
James Lovelock
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Holy Land is everywhere”
Nicholas Black Elk
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
Kenneth E. Boulding
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
These beautiful pictures of island Pag skies have been taken by Iva Busic