Quotes and Opinions"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow. He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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John Dryden "We did not weave the web of life, we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
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Chief Seattle, 1790-1866 ""We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real
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David Suzuki "It is easy to underestimate the power of a long term association with the land - not just a specific spot but with the span of it in memory and imagination"
Barry Lopez "I hope someday we can play guitar by the fire, mother nature at our side, and no worry of what the future holds for her."
Source Unknown "Everything is tied with nature. The land, rocks, trees are part of our history, a part of us. If you stay in one place, a tree will watch you crawl, run, walk, shuffle and eventually see your children complete the cycle behind you."
Ruby Slipperjack "Why is running water such a balm to the human spirit? .... I think it represents the continuing process of life on our planet. The flow of water is the cycle of fertility renewing itself; it happens only because the sun has been shining, the mists rising, and the rains falling in the distant hills."
Harold Horwood "The most exemplary nature is that of topsoil. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter in it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory but as richness, new possibility"
Wendell Berry "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 "We have assumed our lives have no real connection to the natural world..... because we feel no connection to the physical world, we trivialize the consequences of our actions. Because this linkage seems abstract, we are slow to understand what it means to destroy the parts of the environment that are crucial to our survival."
Al Gore "The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. The perfect adaptation... obeying the natural contours, such obstacles that it meets, it goes around. A road embodies a resistance against the landscape. It's reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. It's wish is to avoid contact with the landscape.... it is destructive, seeking to remove all obstacles in it's way."
Wendell Berry "We must recognize the rights of each species to its habitat, migratory routes and place in the community. For humans to assume rights to occupy land by excluding other life forms from their needed habitat is to offend the community in its deepest structure - to declare war on the very life forms we are dependant on for our own survival."
Thomas Berry "When they turn the pages of history - When these days have passed long ago - Will they read of us with sadness
For the seeds that we let grow?"
Neil Peart "We are a species that, through its intelligence, has exceeded its biological constraints but in the process, lost its sense of place in the biosphere. Convinced of our knowledge and ability to control nature, we exploit the very life-support systems of the planet in the name of short-term comfort and economic profit.
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Dr. David Suziki "Jefferson Salamader presence confirmed in wetlands surrounding proposed quarry!
Full details coming soon!"
Ministry of Natural Resources "It is no longer adequate to simply mitigate environmental or social impact for economic benefit. A
corporation has to prove it is leaving behind a visible and tangible improvement in the environment
and in the social fabric of the community."
Alan Kreisberg, President, Western North America LaFarge Construction "It is no longer adequate to simply mitigate environmental or social impact for economic benefit. A
corporation has to prove it is leaving behind a visible and tangible improvement in the environment
and in the social fabric of the community."
Alan Kreisberg, President, Western North America LaFarge Construction "It is no longer adequate to simply mitigate environmental or social impact for economic benefit. A
corporation has to prove it is leaving behind a visible and tangible improvement in the environment
and in the social fabric of the community"
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"Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on climate change and the U.S. position to opt out of the Kyoto protocal.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, opening Wednesday's high-level phase of the conference, addressed the American economic argument.
"Surely we realize by now that a greater cost will be exacted if we lack the will or tenacity to change," he said to loud applause
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Reuters "We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
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Sonia Johnson "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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""Unless you know the road you've come down, you cannot know where you are going."
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Temne Proverb, Sierra Leone
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