Enviromental Quotes

• Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Inspirational, Trying, Achieve

  Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Inspirational, Depressing, Anticipation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

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• The artist...is the voice of the people.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Art, Voice

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• Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

  Maurice Strong

  Responsibility, Eugenics, Civilization

  "Glenn Beck holds up Maurice Strong as evidence of 'global government' conspiracy" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mean, Worry

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• Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Inspirational, Lasting Change, People

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

  Thomas Berry

  Inspirational, Future, Sea

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.175, Crown

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• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Lying, Future

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Commitment, Sticks

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• A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

  Bill Gothard

  Inspirational, Motivation, Mind

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• Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Civilization, Energy

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.234, Routledge

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• Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Truth, Ideas

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.18, tredition

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• You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Impact

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

  Anwar Sadat

  Inspirational, Change, Stress

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

  David Rockefeller

  Eugenics, World Government, Order

  "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flynt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2009.

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• One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Nature, Attention

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• Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.

  Wynn Bullock

  Inspirational, Teacher, Nature

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Kyoto Protocol, People

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• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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