Enviromental Quotes - Page 2

• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Eugenics, Shelter

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• Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Inspirational, Hands, Grit

  "Zen to Go" by Jon Winokur, (p. 126), 1989.

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Awakening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Roots, Bricks

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• In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Vices, Failing

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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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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• I change myself, I change the world.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Inspirational, Change, World

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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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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• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Real, Compassion

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• We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positivity, Light

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Too Late, Knows

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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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• My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.

  David Foreman

  Eugenics, Goal, Population

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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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