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"Globally speaking, I belong to the 20 percent of the world's population - and chances are you do, too - that uses 67 percent of the planet's resources and generates 75 percent of its pollution and waste. This doesn't make me proud. An average American gobbles up the goods that would support thirty citizens of India."from "Small Wonder - Essays"
by Barbara Kingsolver
"More than half of all known species are insects; one out of four is a beetle. When the eminent British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane was asked what characteristics of the Creator could be divined from the wonders of evolution, he is said to have replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles."from "Seven Wonders - Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet"
by John C. Ryan
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life."
Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984)
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
Marshall McLuhan
"Humans are not the only species on the planet, we just act like it."
Unknown
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
Native American Proverb
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Henry David Thoreau
