“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.” WorldYearsHas BeensBigsWaterMillionsAirThis WorldPlanetsOceanSeasonsSpeciesIncludingForestsWeatherAtmosphereTemperatureLiving OnGreat GiftsWoods And Forests Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here” KnowsI CanMatterHomeWaterTreeSubjectsWindRainSellsSatisfiedAtmosphereMeant To BeLeafsGoing Home Author:Lemn Sissay
“Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.” KnowsGivingEarthLeftTermWaterPlanetsMoonStandingSurfaceAbsenceLovelyAtmosphereColourContrastLooking BackStarksDesolate Author:Buzz Aldrin
“You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.” KnowsNeedsCareWaterRealizingCuttingAirTreeGoes OnWasteCommitmentConcernEnvironmentalTake CareAtmospherePoisonBusPollutionAlliancesCommitment To GodRubbishAir And Water Author:Oscar Romero
“You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.” WorldFactsHelpingUseRunningPastEnergyStrongWaterNaturalVisionEconomyEnvironmentPolicyHealthyLimitsRidiculousAtmosphereFuelYieldHittingFossilsNatural WorldCropsFossil FuelThresholdHeatingEnergy PolicyStrong EconomyEnergy Use Author:James Cameron
“A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.” WaterAirFeetEqualWeightAtmosphereReachingCylinders Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)