{"quotes":[{"text":"Everyone become a creation of their environment.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["creation","environment","experience","life-philosophy"],"id":1921,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"},{"text":"Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.","author":"Thich Nhat Hanh","tags":["anger","hate","environment "],"id":2228,"author_id":"Thich+Nhat+Hanh"},{"text":"Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an 'Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition' right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?","author":"Arianna Huffington","tags":["christianity","environment","god","politics","religion","satan"],"id":2242,"author_id":"Arianna+Huffington"},{"text":"The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.","author":"Robert Redford","tags":["animal","environment","long "],"id":2500,"author_id":"Robert+Redford"},{"text":"The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.","author":"Gracia Hunter","tags":["environment","help","self-image","strong","threat","weak"],"id":2720,"author_id":"Gracia+Hunter"},{"text":"We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.","author":"Vandana Shiva","tags":["ecology","environment","social-justice"],"id":3397,"author_id":"Vandana+Shiva"},{"text":"You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.","author":"Michael Crichton","tags":["environment"],"id":3433,"author_id":"Michael+Crichton"},{"text":"In the preface of 'The Rifles' 'Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing.' Barnabas Piryuaq'Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created.' Jan Welzi 1933. ","author":"William T. Vollmann","tags":["animal-rights","environment","hunters","native-americans","slaughter","violence"],"id":4163,"author_id":"William+T.+Vollmann"},{"text":"Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.","author":"Gil Scott-Heron","tags":["conservation","environment"],"id":7973,"author_id":"Gil+Scott-Heron"},{"text":"They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.","author":"Willa Cather","tags":["conservation","environment","native-american"],"id":8002,"author_id":"Willa+Cather"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":775,"pages":78,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}