#ironmen

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

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature #intelligence

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education #environment #parenthood #parenting #resources

The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more rather than less for having stripped them of their birthright and earthrights has not entered into the environmentalist discussions that I've encountered to date. ↗

— Karen Davis

#environmentalism #farm-animals #nature #dating

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray. ↗

— John Paul II

#culture #earth #ecology #god #nature

I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. The farmers don't want it, he explained. The nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that spraying the crops would kill them. He didn't say that feedlot wastes also contain heavy metals and hormone residues, persistent chemicals that end up in waterways downstream, where scientists have found fish and amphibians exhibiting abnormal sex characteristics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#factory-farming #feedlots #manure #pollution #nature

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#challenge #commune #environment #intuition #witch

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#environment #science #education

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#ignorance #education

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