“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.” IfsWayChildrenEarthAmericaMovingFoundHeavenLosesViolenceTeamProtectGunDoctorsOur ChildrenKillingEightMysteriousTeenagerOfficialsGun ControlVirusesHeaven And EarthPublic HealthGun ViolenceProtecting Children Book:A Fighting Chance Source: A Fighting Chance
“We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.” EarthAsksNamesShareBirthOffersBlameKillingLandscapeExquisiteAsking For Forgiveness Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.” StillsEarthSpeciesKillingViolentPlaces To LiveCainAbel Author:Anne Lamott
“The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHelpingEarthDiesCryPlanetsAskingKillingIllWoodsOilOur PlanetMother NatureMineralsAsking For Help Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
“Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.” IfsFirstsEarthTogetherRocksCryBattleSpeciesKillingTrapsInsolentBattle Cry Author:Naz?m Hikmet
“One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!” ThinkingEarthLastsForgetPlansKillingFinalsTormentCautionOne WordDismayed Book:Lord Foul's Bane Source: Lord Foul's Bane
“This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan.” IfsWritingTryingBookEarthDiesKnowingRocksRight NowKillingCampaignsJustifyDeitiesDinosaursAsteroidsTitans Author:James Nicoll
“Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.” IfsYearsMayEarthSpiritualMotherHousePayMistakeClearMonthsAdvantageTwentiesLifetimeKillingFinancialDebtKarmaStealingThis LifeRealmsThirtyCheatingFifteenMortgageThirty YearsMother EarthTaking AdvantageBad KarmaPrevious Life Author:Zhi Gang Sha
“America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.” MayChildrenHas BeensTodayEarthAmericaCommunityUnited StatesViolenceCrimeKillingEpidemics Author:Sissela Bok