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"A condor is about 5 percent feathers, blood, and bone, and about 95 percent place. Place designs the condor, as it does the Arctic tern and the monarch butterfly." --David Brower
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"All men by nature desire to know." --Aristotle
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"Biodiversity is the most information-rich part of the known universe. More organisation and complexity exists in a handful of soil than on the surfaces of all the other planets combined." --E. O. Wilson
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"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius." --E. O. Wilson
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Every morning when I wake up I am torn between the twin desires to reform the world and to enjoy the world and it makes it hard to plan the day." --E.B. White
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"Every sixty seconds, thirty acres of rain forest are destroyed in order to raise beef for fast food restaurants that sell it to people, giving them strokes and heart attacks, which raise medical costs and insurance rates, providing insurance companies with more money to invest in large corporations that branch out further into the Third World so they can destroy more rain forests." --George Carlin
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"Everytime I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." --H. G. Wells
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." --Vaclav Havel
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." --H. G. Wells
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"I am an idealist without illusions." --John F. Kennedy
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"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself." --Buckminster Fuller
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"If we can't see the stars at night, it's not just pollution or toxicity of the planet, it's a loss of our soul, our imagination, of the experience of what it is to be a human being." --Thomas Berry
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." --Henry David Thoreau
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"If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact." --His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." --Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." --Andy Warhol
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"In wildness is the preservation of the world." --Henry David Thoreau
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"Information wants to be free." --Stewart Brand
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"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." --Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available -- once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes plain -- a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose." --Fred Hoyle
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." --Plato
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." --Buckminster Fuller
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man." --Marshall McLuhan
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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." --Abraham Lincoln
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"The earth belongs to each...generation during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first... For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living..." --Thomas Jefferson
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." --Winston Churchill
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology." --Marshall McLuhan
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"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." --E. O. Wilson
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"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology." --E.F. Schumacher
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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." --Paul Valery
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." --Albert Einstein
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity." --George Bernard Shaw
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"There is one thing MUCH stronger than all the armies of the world and that is an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo
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"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." --wrongly attributed to Chief Seattle
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"Today, every person with an automobile has the power of a king. Personal control of a 350-horsepower automobile is equivalent in energy terms to the power of an Egyptian pharaoh with 350 horses or 3,500 slaves at his command." --Rene Dubos
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." --Stewart Brand
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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." --E. O. Wilson
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"We are innately inclined to ignore any distant possibility not yet requiring examination. It is a hardwired part of our Paleolithic heritage." --E. O. Wilson
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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." --T. S. Eliot
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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." --Winston Churchill
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"We travel together, passengers on a little space craft, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace, preserved from annihilation only by the work, the care and,I will say, the love we give our fragile craft." --Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." --Buckminster Fuller
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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." --John Muir
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"Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail" --Abraham Lincoln
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"You can never learn less, you can only learn more." --Buckminster Fuller
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"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw
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"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem." --Eldridge Cleaver
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