“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."” WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action Author:Vaclav Havel
“It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.” WorldMeanSeemsLastsNaturalClearEnvironmentalObviousOur LoveNatural World Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader
“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.” WorldMeanStillsNaturalChanceSanityNatural World Book:The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West Source: The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West