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Previous Notable Quotes "If we continue to believe as we have
always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If
we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have
always gotten." "Destruction of the environment is not
a natural catastrophe. It's us." "No problem can be solved from the
same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world
anew." "Sustainability
is the 21st century agenda to complete the promise of democracy." "Any great change must expect
opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege." "The future is created by the stories
we tell about who we are and where we are going." "We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor
with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery
which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of being
which evidently exceeds all our competence." "Our human responsibility as one voice among so many throughout the
universe is to develop our capacities to listen as incessantly as the hovering
hydrogen atoms, as profoundly as our primal ancestors and their faithful
descendants in today's indigenous peoples. The adventure of the universe
depends upon our capacity to listen." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "Each of us has the waves of every other organism
entangled within our own make-up . . . supported and constituted, ultimately, by
all there is in the universe." "We cannot obilterate the continuities of history, nor can we move into
the future without guidance from existing cultural forms. Yet, somehow we
must reach even further back, to where our human genetic coding connects with
the other species codings of the larger Earth community. Only then can we
overcome the limitations of the anthropocentrism that binds us." "If we know the elements simply in their isolated individual reality we
have only minimal knowledge of what they really are. . . . There is a
spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our
in our highest spiritual experience." "Peace will not
come out of clash of arms, but out of justice lived." "The most vital responsibility any manager ever has is to
create an environment that nurtures creativity." "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to
tell the economic truth. Capitalism will collapse because it does not
allow prices to tell the ecological truth." "Terrorism, war, economic and political power,
religious and racial intolerance are not the driving forces of the universe.
They are the patterns of people out of touch with who they are, patterns
defined by centuries of living in a world that does not recognize its unity with
the Creator and the awesome wonder of creation." "True human beings can have no hope of an evolutionary future except in
association with all the rest." "Bcteria . . .
are the dominant form of life on earth--and always havea been, and probably
always will be. They are more abundant, more indestructible, more diverse
in biochemistry . . . and inhabit a greater range of environments than all other
[life] combined." "What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau "The first day or so we all
pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were
pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware
of only one Earth." "... we were made for
something cosmic and will not fit peacefully into anything much
smaller. And when we try to build our lives around anything
much smaller than cosmos we become grotesque, and our
institutions, be they religious or familial or educational or
governmental are asked to do too much. They become
misshapen and malformed and turn into instruments of cosmic and
personal destruction." "A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet." Matthew Fox Original Blessing (Tarcher-Putnam 2000 edition), p. 252. "No matter how far down the wrong path you have gone -- turn back!" An ancient Chinese philosopher cited by Michael Shuman in the Eugene Weekly "The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive." Ishmael, Daniel Quinn "Any
meaningful definition of truth has to include the effect on others of what you
say."
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