“Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsWellsValuesSocialTalkingEnvironmentalWell BeingConsistentWay Of Talking Author:Peter Senge
“One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.” IfsWaySeemsEyeCreativeWonderfulStyleCreationBalanceElementsRainNegativeGreenEnvironmentalSnowInstanceFascinatingTemperBalancedHoodSceneryElevationCorrespondingIncomparableGod's Creation Author:Marilyn Meberg
“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.” WayWellsLongEnoughWould BeFacesValuesAttitudeConditionsPlanetsConsequenceEnvironmentalInevitablePermanentDoomEnough TimeWrong Attitude Author:T. S. Eliot
“The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.” WayHumansKindEarthFormMotherNaturalCreationSonMaterialsEnvironmentalSeedsSubstanceHumankindIncarnationRaw Materials Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.” WayWholeSpiritualOrderBitsAbsolutesEnvironmentalCreatorSignificanceBeauty Of LifeMilky WayLife And Beauty Book:The Spiritual Life Source: The Spiritual Life