#environmentalism

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #gardening #green #japan #sustainability

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now. ↗

— Tom Szaky

#entrepreneurship #environmentalism #business

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. ↗

— Tom Szaky

#entrepreneurship #environmentalism #business

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#environmentalism #fish #humour #ocean #science

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#flying #god #men

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever. ↗

— James Lovelock

#intelligence

The difference between the long-term average of the graph and the ice age, 12,000 years ago, is just over 3°C. The IPCC 2001 report suggests that the line of the hockey stick graph might rise a further 5°C during this century. This is about twice as much as the temperature change from the ice age to pre-industrial times. ↗

— James Lovelock

#age

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #beauty

Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us. ↗

— Frances Moore Lappé

#economy #environmentalism #beauty

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul. ↗

— Lawrence Anthony

#environmental #environmentalism #species #wilderness #life