"People have made at least a start on discovering the meaning
of human life when they plant shade trees under which
they know full well they will never sit."
Elton Trueblood
"We will be known forever by the track we leave."
-Native American Proverb
"The release of this [fossil fuel] energy is a unidirectional and irreversible process. It can only happen once, and the historical events associated with this release are necessarily without precedent, and are intrinsically incapable of repetition."
- M. King Hubbert, Journal Science, 1949, p. 103-109
"The modern economic world has invented one million economic litanies and forces its citizens to sing them every day, like the Church did in the past with the Latin Litanies in the traditional religious services; believers praying with unintelligible words."
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Pedro Prieto from TOD, 5/29/09
“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And, it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”
-Justice William O. Douglas Speaks On Twilight
"The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialization, 'Western civilization' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation."
-John Gray, "Straw Dogs"
"A popular government, without popular information, or the mean of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
-James Madison
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks but most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
-Linda Hogan
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