Environment Messages

“we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

“there are no passengers on spaceship earth. we are all crew.”

“newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.”

"they kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.”

“the use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”

“the earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”

“economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”

“suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

“for 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. now we’re beating it to death.”

“if civilization has risen from the stone age, it can rise again from the wastepaper age.”

“such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”

“the word “wilderness”occurs approximately three hundred times in the bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.”