“No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.” Quote by Arron Wood
“We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.” PeopleEnvironmentMessagesProgramIntenseParadise Author:Arthur Boyd
“Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.” EnvironmentClimateDestroyedSequenceTimberHotterVegetation Author:Ferdinand von Mueller
“Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.” WealthEconomyEnvironmentFunctionForestsLiberationEmpiresOfferingOxygenContributingPhysiologicalVegetationUtilitarian Author:Ferdinand von Mueller
“Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.” CareUsedGivenEnvironmentGenerationsBlessingRegardSacredPropertyRichesForestsInheritancePosterityTransientDevastatedPatrimony Author:Ferdinand von Mueller
“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?” PeopleKnowsPastFallHouseLosesMemoriesAnimalEnvironmentChildhoodTaughtDadProtectLosingConnectionsSacredMy DadBricksFalling DownChildhood MemoriesAboriginal Author:Bindi Irwin
“Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.” WorldMadeHumanityEnvironmentEssentialsResourcesGoldOilDisappearPsychologicalWildernessWellbeing Author:Bob Brown
“So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!” IfsKnowsWorldMindHumansLooksHeartLittlesBodyEyeEarthJoySpiritLeftNaturalSupportEnvironmentImagineCenturyPlanetsShoppingFabricGrandchildrenHuman SpiritGreat Grandchildren Author:Bob Brown
“Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.” WorldAgeEarthTogetherPastWealthCommonEnvironmentSawsDependsDebtHumankindDistributionConsensusComing TogetherDiasporaEquitableLargesse Author:Bob Brown
“We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.” BornEnvironmentFlowerWallForestsDepictionBulldozers Author:Bob Brown
“The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?” IfsRealityMillionsRichEnvironmentSharePlanetsLuckySpeciesQuarters Author:Bob Brown