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"Be the change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi
If it is to be, it is up to me.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
Bill McKibben
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
Cree Indian Prophecy
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Theresa
The great thing about the dilemma we’re in is that we get to reimagine every single thing we do… There isn’t a single thing that doesn’t require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change this world. Paul Hawkins
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. Prof Albert Bartlett
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
"But now," says the Once-ler,
"Now that you're here,
the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not. The Lorax by Dr Seuss
“Know whatever comes to you unexpected to be a gift from god, which will surely serve you if you use it to the fullest. It is only that which you strive for out of your own imagination that gives you trouble"
Brandon Bays
We cannot solve our problems by using the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” – John Steinbeck
People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.
Jean Monnet
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the intergrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
How people treat you is their karma.....How you react is yours.
It seems to me that a low carbon society would be one which remebers that our planet is a unique gift - perhaps the only one of its kind in the entire universe - which we are indescribably priveledged to be born into. It would be a society that could look back on the six degrees nightmare scenario as just that - a nightmare, one which humanity woke up from and avoided before it was too late. More than anything, it would be a society which survived and prospered, and which passed on this glorious inheritance - of ice caps, rainforests and thriving civilisations - to countless generations, far into the future. -Mark Lynas