“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.” PeopleWorldMindEarthHumanityNaturalPlanetsBuddhismResourcesFilledBillionsTinyDisasterUrbanHighwaysAutomobileLiving OnNatural Resources Author:Frederick Lenz
“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.” WorldYearsSaidReasonWould BeAbleNextDifficultNaturalPlanetsDegreesYears AgoDecadesArguingGlobal WarmingQuartersEquilibriumVariability Author:James Hansen
“I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.” WorldWayWantWellsI CanEarthTogetherNaturalRichPaintingPlanetsHandsomeNatural WorldPlanet Earth Author:Robert Bateman
“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."” IfsThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemMightNaturalStepsPlanetsBirdResponseDisappearScalesErasHopelessMeaninglessNatural WorldOh Well Author:Jonathan Franzen
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.” IfsWorldWayWritingTryingArtFactsStoriesEarthFormArtistOrderForceNaturalBehindsVisionNovelCreationObjectsPlanetsChaosDrivenImpulseAppropriateScreenplaysPlanet Earth Author:Robert Olen Butler
“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsThreeNaturalSupportFiveFourPlanetsHugeStandardsResourcesNatural ResourcesStandards Of LivingHigh Standards Author:Jane Goodall
“At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.” PeopleWorldHumansMayLongStillsNaturalHuman BeingsPlanetsOne DayLonelyRemainsSurfaceWitnessDramaticThirtyContinentsNatural WorldEverestDesolateImmensitySplendourAntarctica Author:David Attenborough
“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.” IfsMeanWholeOrderFeltNaturalPlanetsBrokenImportanceCommittedFleshRhythmSchemesPullingDisturbedJoggingNatural OrderLogging Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.” WorldHumansWellsGivenStarsBornNaturalAnimalSeaLandPlanetsDependsCivilizationCreaturesRelationPlantContemporaryWell BeingNatural World Author:Chellis Glendinning
“We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.” LittlesEarthNaturalAcceptingConditionsPlanetsInevitableAdjusting Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.” IfsNeedsProcessNaturalTreePlanetsSpeciesAtmosphereTrapsCarbonCarbon DioxidePhotosynthesis Author:Wangari Maathai
“The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.” WantNaturalPlanetsTruth IsFuelOrganismsFossilsFossil FuelBurning Fossil Fuels Author:Janine Benyus
“It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?” TodayOrderForceNaturalBusinessPlanetsStructureInternationalDetermineCurrencyPrimalTotalityForces Of NatureNatural Order Author:Paddy Chayefsky
“I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources.” PeopleThinkingWorldGovernmentNaturalHavensMovementPlanetsProtectResourcesEnvironmentalCorporationsOur PlanetNatural Resources Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.” ShouldHas BeensHomeNaturalPoorCitiesMoralEventsPlanetsMembersResourcesShould HaveWake UpResponsibleClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeObligationWeatherVulnerableAffectedFragileSustainabilityConsumerismSevereUnpredictableTemperatureRecklessShould Have BeenNatural ResourcesDroughtStewardsIrreplaceableFloodingMoral ObligationDevouringCoastalPoor And Vulnerable Author:Desmond Tutu
“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanLostNaturalForgetBrainFourPlanetsPerspectiveComputerLosingBillionsOrganismsNatural HistoryYears Of Life Author:Robert Neelly Bellah