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“Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.”

Whole Action Values Environment Events Function Cancer Attraction Obligation Our Environment Physical Attraction Immediacy Physical Things

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”

“Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.”

World Would Be Values Decision Environment Bird Wings Environmental Supreme Flight Insects Birds In Flight

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.”

“Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.”

Mean Values Environment Share Sells Vistas Clean Air

Book:Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future

Source: Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future

“It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.”

Needs Years Has Beens Values Environment Constitution Suits Privacy Provision Emergence

Author:Shinzo Abe

“In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'”

Important Values Asks Social Environment Happened Becoming Driven Crowded Personal Relationships Forlorn Social Environment

Author:Desmond Morris

“When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.”

Spirit Suffering Values Loses Environment Awareness Buddhism Sight Buddhist Trash Alienation Etiquette Disconnected

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.”

Values Moral Issues Environment Groups Economic Absolutes Oppressed Right To Life

Author:Peter Drucker

“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Lasts Values Community Environment Share Mines Balance Survival Resources Competition Cooperation Ecosystems Canaries

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.”

People Ifs Would Be Values Poverty Environment Share Creating Resources Committed Refuse Assisting

Author:Wangari Maathai

“If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.”

Ifs World Children Spiritual Values Growth Environment Personality Characteristics Revelations Spiritual Growth Astonishing Betterment Intrinsic Value

Book:Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori

Source: Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori

“You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.”

Ifs Should Values Natural Decision Environment Convinced Programmes Electorate Natural History Unpopular Decisions

Author:David Attenborough

“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.”

Thinking World Needs Mean Past Moving Values Order Born Lines Environment Shapes Independence Determined Meaningful Arrangements Autonomy Defining Moving Out

Author:Gerda Lerner