51 quotes found
“One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.”
“The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the...”
“The Earth was not dead. She had been sick, yes, weakened by an infestation. Now she was ridding herself of it. For those who remained alive the choice was a simple one, whether they realised it yet...”
“No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams”
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
“The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.”
“Feet got sore, body was tired,long day, march down Manhattan.I felt a fire lit within me.Hopefully this fire will touchall of us, will be a long fight.-Climate Change March 2014”
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.”
“I want to be done with tears, and the day is too beautiful for them anyway. Nevertheless, I consider my tears for a moment, the idea of them, a link to the earths ancient origins. Im comforted by t...”
“Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be used only ironically. Tell me: H...”
“You're either for the environment or against the environment.”
“The name Matthew means gift of Yahweh. Saint Matthew was one of the twelve apostles and he was a tax collector. Hurricane Matthew just delivered us a gift from God and collected taxes for our abysm...”
“Mother Nature is challenging enough, let's keep oil drilling out of the picture.”
“Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.”
“A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses the Cascade Range. In midsummer, the cabin looked strange in the forest. It was only twelve feet ...”
“We have, as a nation, made choices that by all reasonable expectations should have put us in harm's way. There is little doubt that we continue to make choices that are likely to make the danger ev...”
“We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.”
“Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other...”
“Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?”
“We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our wo...”