“Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.” WarSeaLandRevolutionConsequenceConcernConcernedRiversAimPalestinianEntityLiberatingJuneJordanZionistEliminatingUprootingMediterranean Sea Author:Yasser Arafat
“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.” EarthHumanityIndividualUnderstandingWaterFateProgressFailingEconomicCreationDevelopmentModelsConsequenceConcernNegativeRiversEnvironmentalLimitationAcknowledgeConsiderationOur SocietyProvokingTechnologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.” WorldHas BeensHomeWould BeLostLandEffectsConsequenceRiversEnvironmentalNostalgiaDesertAtmosphereParadiseSoilOur WorldFarmsFearfulSustainabilityLayersEcologicalFertileGreenhousesDevastationErosionCampaigningOzoneThistlesOzone LayerSoil Erosion Author:Desmond Tutu
“The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.” MenWorldRunningFeetMen And WomenConsequenceRiversBridgesLooking BackCrossingsLoose Change Book:The Club Dumas: A Novel Source: The Club Dumas: A Novel
“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.” YearsHumansMightWaterWalksExistenceTakenConsequenceRiversTwentiesHistoricalPityRelatedCriedDiscipleCoinsHuman ExistenceFeatsLevitation Author:Peter Matthiessen
“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.” IfsWorldBelieveCountryMatterWholeJobsMovingNationsPrinciplesTreePoliticianConsequenceRiversPressesPlantWhole WorldOddsRequirements Author:J. Michael Straczynski