Quotations
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List of quotations
Below is a list of the quotations from which the one at the top of the home page is randomly drawn.
“ I'm truly sorry Man's dominion / Has broken Nature's social union, / An' justifies that ill opinion / Which makes thee startle / At me, thy poor, earth-born companion / An' fellow-mortal! ” — Rabbie Burns
“ A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ” — Aldo Leopold
“ And you think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all you won't be free. ” — Eddie Vedder (from the lyrics to the song 'Society')
“ Any technology […] has as its first responsibility the preservation of the human and nonhuman richness of the world. ” — David Ehrenfeld
“ As long as human needs are our only concern, we shall fail both ourselves and the rest of life. ” — Patrick Curry
“ For surely there is no square mile of earth's inhabitable surface that is not beautiful in its own way, if we men will only abstain from wilfully destroying that beauty. ” — William Morris
“ For the right of every man, every woman, every living creature to live life in freedom from the madness of nationalism, the brutality of militarism, the greed of industrialism… ” — Professor Noah Rodack (in the novel Good News by Edward Abbey)
“ How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! ” — John Muir
“ I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs. ” — Eddie Vedder (from the lyrics to the Pearl Jam song 'Garden')
“ I think that the ultimate irony of organic evolution is that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, it doomed its most beautiful creations. ” — EO Wilson
“ In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. ” — Aldo Leopold
“ In Wildness is the preservation of the world. ” — Henry David Thoreau
“ Industrial civilization will be remembered as the systematic destruction of wild beauty. ” — Samuel Alexander
“ Mankind's will has been imposed upon the Earth. As though we were alone and if our actions had no consequences. Man crushes all that bars the way. On this path to annihilation. Taking for themselves while the other inhabitants' lives are given no consideration. ” — Karl Buechner (from the lyrics to the Earth Crisis song 'Destroy the Machines')
“ May we speak in all human councils on behalf of the animals and plants and landscapes of Earth. ” — John Seed
“ No compromise in defense of Mother Earth! ” — Founding pledge of Earth First!
“ None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. ” — John Muir
“ Once she ruled the Earth with love and wisdom. But we were much too smart to live her way. With greed and lust we tried to rise above her. The ignorance of man will reach an end. And now she's gonna die. ” — Kerry Livgren (from the lyrics to Kansas's 'Death of Mother Nature Suite')
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“ Resource reasons for conservation […] must always be presented together with the non-humanistic reasons, and it should be made clear that the latter are more important in every case. ” — David Ehrenfeld
“ Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners. ” — John Muir
“ The beauty and existence of the natural world should be sufficient justification in itself for saving it all. ” — Edward Abbey
“ The great trees and beasts of the earth—once the objects of well-deserved veneration—live, one and all, on borrowed time, or escape extinction only on human sufferance. ” — Theodore Roszak
“ The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. ” — Jane Goodall
“ The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. ” — Dian Fossey
“ The perception of beauty in the world is the proof of our belonging, the bridge to a wider sympathy extended beyond our own kind. ” — Stan Rowe
“ The wilderness idea needs no defense—only more defenders. ” — Edward Abbey
“ There are so many reasons to wager that under the accreted armor of human supremacy lies an ocean of tenderness and love for the living world. ” — Eileen Crist
“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ” — Rachel Carson
“ To admit wildlife into the human cosmos solely as a commodity in the human interest is to make preservation an absolute impossibility. ” — John Livingston
“ 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. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man. ” — Aldo Leopold
“ We are none of us good enough for the world we have. ” — Edward Abbey
“ We cannot win the battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature… for we will not fight to save what we do not love. ” — Stephen Jay Gould
“ We must move beyond a spirituality focused on the divine and the human to a spirituality concerned with the survival of the natural world in its full splendour, fertility, and integral wellbeing. ” — Thomas Berry
“ Wilderness complements and completes civilization. ” — Edward Abbey
