“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.” LifeSimpleCreativeRichEnvironmentTroubleLife And LivingGardenEnvironmentalSimplicityJoyfulSimple LifeMinimalismSimple LivingLife LivingLiving A Simple LifeLife Is Simple Author:Doris Janzen Longacre
“The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.” PeopleWayBelieveStoriesProblemI BelievePowerfulClearTroubleSeaSeriousOceanCreatingPhotographyInstrumentsEnvironmentalCelebrateNew WaysHighlightsEnvironmental Problems Author:Brian Skerry
“If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!” IfsThinkingWayHardGrowthTroubleEnvironmentalBest WayConsumersJoyfulConsumptionVolumeOur EnvironmentSubversiveAll The BestJoyful Life Author:Bill McKibben
“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.” WorldNeedsLastsGrowthEconomyTroubleLandCenturyCivilizationEnvironmentalIncludingProductionsDecadesAtmosphereTrendsBubblesConsumptionCarbon21st CenturyCarbon DioxideFood ProductionAquifers Author:Lester R. Brown
“The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times.” MindWaterTroublePlanetsAmountEnvironmentalDrinking WaterPrehistoricWater ResourcesPrehistoric Times Book:Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource Source: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.” MenWorldWantSoulSometimesLastsOrderPassionHeavenEffortTroubleLandFieldsObjectsCostComfortableAddPlantEnvironmentalEnormousConquerSustainabilitySmallestYardsPalacesConvenientDwellingOrchardSmall Objects Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.” PeopleLifeHeartQualityTroubleEnvironmentalPollutionQuality Of LifeBlightEnvironmental Pollution Author:Li Keqiang