Six Quotes About The Environment

"We abuse land because we regard it
as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which
we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect."
-- Aldo Leopold/ A SAND COUNTY
ALMANAC --

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"Our deepest folly is the notion that we are in charge of the place;
that we own it and can somehow run
it. We are beginning to treat the
Earth as a sort of domesticated
household pet, living in an
environment invented by us, part
kitchen-garden, part park, part zoo."
-- Kirkpatick Sale/ DWELLERS IN THE
LAND --

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"What is bad for the beehive cannot
be good for the bees."
-- Marcus Aureius/ MEDITATIONS --

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"The Indians addressed all of life as a 'Thou' -- the trees, the stones, everything. You can address
anything as a 'Thou,' and if you do
it, you can feel the changes in your
own psychology. The ego that sees a
'Thou' is not the same ego that sees
an 'it.'"
-- Joseph Campbell/ THE POWER OF MYTH --

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"The biosphere, or living membrane
that covers our planet, might be
compared to the film of water which
clings to an orange that has been wet."
-- Loren Eiseley --

"If we are to be properly humble in
our use of the world, we need places
that we do not use at all. We need
the experience of leaving something
alone. We need places that we forbear to change, or influence by our presence, or impose on even by our understanding; places that we
accept as influences upon us, not
the other way around; that we enter
with the sense, the pleasure, of having nothing to do there; places
that we must enter in a kind of
cultural nakedness, without comfort
or tools, to submit rather than
conquer. We need what other ages
would have called 'Sacred Groves.'"
-- Wendell Berry/ THE UNSETTLING OF
AMERICA --

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