“The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.” IfsMightChristianDiesProcessEternalMessagesCrossesEnvironmentalWillingnessSustainabilityOur LoveEternal LifeUnbornEcologicalEcosystemsContinuationContinuation Of Life Author:Wes Jackson
“The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.” KnowsEarthUniverseStarsAnimalKnow HowMovementWindMountainMessagesRiversTasksOriginalsEnvironmentalForgottenCloudsWoodsViolentJungleStewardshipUprisingElevation Author:Leonardo Boff
“The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.” IfsWellsMayEndsAirSeaLandWasteMessagesResourcesRegardEnvironmentalFinalsDrawingQuartersConsumptionCurtainsStewardshipUndisciplined Author:Richard J. Foster
“I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.” PeopleKnowsWellsHeartMadeStoriesFilmHumanityAudienceFeetMy HeartMessagesSpeciesEnvironmentalPenguinsHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.” WantPoliticalSongTermCreativityIssuesSacrificeInvolvedMessagesMusicianEnvironmentalGuitarActivismGet InvolvedPopulistEnvironmental IssuesPolitical Activism Author:Eyvind Kang