Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day, when all participating bloggers around the Web write on just a single issue--the environment. My humble contribution to this effort, this being a Quotes blog, are the following memorable quotations on the environment:
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations."Print
- From The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - M. Gandhi
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"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that." - Thomas Edison
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"There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." - Anon.
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and eat and sleep with the Earth."
- Walt Whitman
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"Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it."
-Alan Watts
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"Not to have known, as most men have not, either the mountains or the desert, is not to have known oneself."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
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"He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking."
- Confucius
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