#ironmen

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times. ↗

— Wade Davis

#culture #diversity #survival #environment

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#creatures #environment #love #people #placed

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#able #atmosphere #fool #may #voters

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world. ↗

— Donal Logue

#college football #comfortable #environment #feel #feels

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#also #apart #being #cannot #caused

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#believed #church #court #environmentalists #independence

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#day #earth #earth day #environment #got

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment. ↗

— Evo Morales

#better #concept #consuming #cost #environment

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. ↗

— John Muir

#away #awhile #break #clean #clear