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This book was written using 100% recycled words. ↗


— Terry Pratchett


#environmentalism #humor #humor

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess. ↗


— Art Buchwald


#environment #art

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make? ↗


— Shaun Tan


#activism #antitv #environment #inspirational #inspirational

At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value. ↗


— Thomas L. Friedman


#nature

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗


— Mahatma Gandhi


#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick. ↗


— Dave Chappelle


#insanity #environment

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit ↗


— David Suzuki


#environment

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis. ↗


— Mohamed ElBaradei


#environment

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history. ↗


— Jonathan Safran Foer


#environment #factory-farming #abuse

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ↗


— Henry David Thoreau


#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment






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