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“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.”

Believe Animal Responsibility Share Planets Sacred

Author:Emmylou Harris

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts Kind Form Millions Planets Concern Years Ago Sacred Access Obscure Shamanism Anthropologists

Author:Terence McKenna

“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”

Strong Forever Planets Sacred Oath Friends Forever Save The Planet

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.”

Men Needs Hate Planets Waste Illusion Sacred Makers After Death Life After Death

Book:Tomcat in Love

Source: Tomcat in Love

“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.”

“Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.”

World Doe America Opportunity Responsibility Planets Bears Offers Demand Ideals Sacred Our Planet Posterity Borrowed

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

“An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.”

War Humanity Mankind Planets Thirds Sacred Scripture Cosmic Collapse Fiery Ingenious Millennium Biodiversity Armageddon Wreckage Plentiful Sacred Scripture

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.”

Space Planets Sacred Library

Author:Nikky Finney

“This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. All of your problems, all of your conflicts, all of your difficulties in creating a life on your planet of peace and joy are based in your failure to understand this simple instruction, and to follow it.”

Done Problem Joy Simple Secret Planets Conflict Creating Difficulty Sacred Instruction Peace And Joy Do Unto Others

Book:Meditations from Conversations with God

Source: Meditations from Conversations with God

“Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Should Stories Home Night Prayer Planets Down And Sacred Preserves Settling Settling Down Good In The World

Author:Ursula Goodenough