“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.” IfsWorldWayLooksDifferentMotherOpportunityWaterNatureChallengesGreaterLandPlanetsPerspectiveShapesMountainResourcesRiversTreatsSacredSpeciesForestsVeinsDeitiesDifferent PerspectiveGroveTimberIrrigation Author:David Suzuki
“Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.” ShouldWaterPoorTeachDoctorsTreatsMethodWesternExpensiveCleaningInventingRefinedPlumberTubsCleaning UpSplashing Author:Denis Parsons Burkitt
“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.” IfsNeedsChildrenWould BeThreeWaterGrowingAmountFairsTreatsProfitSunlightSiblingIdenticalCactusPruning Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
“Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.” MenGivingBelieveMadeRealChristianFormValuesWaterChanceModernWorstHe ManOceanTreatsEnvironmentalMade ItExploitsPragmaticModern ManReal ValueCrass Author:Francis Schaeffer
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!” BodyWaterHealingCryTreatsSickYour BodyThirstMedicationThirsty Author:Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
“Give your dog something to do before you share food, water, toys or affection. This way the dog earns his treat. For example, have him or her perform the "sit" or "down" command.” WayGivingWaterShareDogExampleTreatsAffectionCommandToys Author:Cesar Millan
“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.” WorldWayHumansWarSpiritualFormSufferingCausesWaterAnimalPovertyAirEmotionalDiseaseRootsTreatsCleanStarvationHuman SufferingRoot CauseClean AirAir And Water Author:Sharon Gannon
“Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.” KnowsWayProblemEarthWaterAirConsequenceTreats Author:Sylvia Earle
“Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.” StrongWaterCompanyGrowingAirMovementCostTreatsDamageSoilSustainabilityCarbonIncentivesFootprintCarbon FootprintExternalities Author:Philip Kotler
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” PeopleHumansLiteratureWaterRespectTreatsCastsBreadFloating Author:James A. Baldwin
“In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.” ChildrenUseHandsSchoolWaterPracticeGroupsMetsEatingOrganizationTreatsDrinkingSouthClubsLocalsTraveledBathroomWashingHygieneDrinking WaterSudan Author:Mandy Moore
“Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.” MenShouldWaterImaginationMillionsMinutesSweetSummerTreatsTablesMereCommitFortyDishesChefCornOutrageIngenuityOvensSuperbAmerican WomanHottestSummer DaysAmbrosiaSweet Corn Author:Rex Stout
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveMayMeanSometimesParentWaterLove YouTreatsOne More DayLove My ParentsI Love My Parents Book:For One More Day Source: For One More Day
“Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.” DreamHouseWaterSeaOceanRedTreatsMidstFlagsBreezeTokyoRed FlagsFlappingBuoysSea Breeze Book:Goodbye Tsugumi Source: Goodbye Tsugumi
“Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.” GivingTogetherHumanityGrowthWaterNaturalQualityTroubleWasteResourcesDoctorsTreatsBlameNatural ResourcesMisusedRefreshments Author:Katherine Paterson
“There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free” MenDreamWaterHeardStonesTreatsGreenBusyDecadesBreathingCaliforniaQueensWeedSailingHarborsBeing FreeAmberBeads Author:Joni Mitchell
“Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.” MenWaterFashionStyleFiguresProjectsTreatsFluid Author:Jay-Z
“We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.” IfsWorldStillsProblemTimeWaterNaturalWasteLateResourcesTreatsEnvironmentalValuableToo LateNatural ResourcesDrinking WaterPrecious ThingsDrink WaterWater ResourcesStill Waters Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindI CanGuySongWaterLike YouFoolMusicianTreatsJealousHeartedMuddy Author:Howlin' Wolf