Quotes

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
- E. M. Forster


“I’d come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.”
- David Mixner


“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
- Jo Walton


“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein


“The earth has music for those who listen.”
- George Santayana


“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.”
- Herman Hesse


“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein


“The earth has music for those who listen.”
― George Santayana


“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.”
- Herman Hesse


"Do not let your free will, the most valuable thing you possess, be taken away."  - Helmuth Hubener


"Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman."
- Joan Jett


"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus


"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
- Edward Abbey


"Truth is so obscured nowadays, and lies so well established, that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it."   - Blaise Pascal


"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
- Martin Luther King


“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
- Thucydides


“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
- Carroll Bryant


“Humour is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of suprises.”
- Erma Bombeck


“Plans are invitation to disappointment.”
- Derek Landy


"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus


"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
- Alfred Adler


"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible."
- Noam Chomsky


"The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience."
— Victor Gollancz


“It is the consumers of the rich nations of the temperate northern regions of the world who are primarily responsible for the ongoing loss of natural wealth in the tropics."
- Jonathan Loh


“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”   - Confucius


“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”
- John Lennon


“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”  - Lao Tzu


“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”   - Socrates


"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
- Native American Proverb


"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
- Marshall McLuhan


"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
- E. B. White


"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
- Mike Tyson


"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall


"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."
- Coretta Scott King


"What is now proved was once only imagined."
- William Blake


"Life is trying things to see if they work."
- Ray Bradbury


"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


“The health of soil, plant, animal, and humans is one and indivisible.”
- Lady Eve Balfour


“The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.”
- Masanobu Fukuoka


“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
- Rachel Carson


"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."   - George Sand


"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to, and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
- Brittany Renée

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did."
- Mark Twain


"In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners."
- Michael Bakunin


"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."
—Oscar Wilde


"Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."
- Bob Black


“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
- Richelle Mead


“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
- Anaïs Nin


"Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit others to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever."   - Audre Lorde


"Do our individual actions make a difference? They give us the force to keep going."
- Martha Uvalle


"We no longer live life. We consume it."
― Vicki Robin

‎"A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."
~ Herman Hesse

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Buddha


"I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."

― Judith Minty

"There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss."
- Anthony de Mello

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
- Rabbi Harold Kushner


“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano


“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”  - Eduardo Hughes Galeano


“In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.”
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano


"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."
- Swedish Proverb


“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”
- Qwatsinas


Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. -- Garrison Keillor

"Doing the right thing has power."
- Laura Linney


"A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!"   - Kevin Heath


"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."
- Emanuel Swedenborg


“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”   – Edwin Way Teale