February 2012
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“Grown-ups keep their feet on the ground when they swing. I hate that.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye - “One Boy Told Me”
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Indigenous Peoples at Forefront of Climate Change... →
Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that have learned to manage and conserve the precious resources around them.
“As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe...”
– Captain Paul Watson
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“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors...”
– Michael Ellner
WatchHow do people get like this? How does it happen?
There are no words to describe the mixture of rage and deep sadness I feel.
“I’m definitely not the only one who has felt strained. If we look around, we see...”
– Kyle Chamberlain, Respecting Ourselves – Part I
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how...”
– Doug Larson
Roses are red, violets are blue.
How about you and I refrain from consuming, because an endless growth economy on a finite planet will destroy us all.
“I chose to stay present,
to unlearn how to unlove,
to love,
and to practice...”
– Buddy Wakefield, ‘Amplified Stillness’
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To Everyone Feeling Screwed Over by the Economy →
The less we participate in this abusive economy, the better. 10% unemployment is deplorable. We need 90% unemployment. If we really resent this system, let’s earn less, buy less, and own less. Let’s invest our time, energy, and resources in things that can’t be taxed or parisitized by corporations. Let’s deal not in dollars, but in energy, nutrients, materials, local currencies, and relationships....
“A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply...”
– Deng Ming-Dao
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
“In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn....”
– Michael Parenti
Welcome to the decrepit system.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
“If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called...”
– Ymber Delecto
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense...”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
– Rumi
“This is not by some machine where we can screw on fittings or put wires between...”
– Bill Mollison
“I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at...”
– Nikita Khrushchev
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that...”
– Terence McKenna
“We ought to be silent or speak things that are better than silence.”
– Pythagoras
“Human activity is altering the dynamics and functioning of the Earth system to a...”
– Proposal of Bolivia to Rio+20, The Rights of Nature
“It is the tragedy of our time that the average individual learns too late that...”
– Manly Hall
nature is plentiful, it can feed everything.
don’t believe what they tell you.
nature can’t feed what they’re hungry for.