It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. - Rachel Carson
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation. - Herman E. Daly
Treat the Earth well. She was not given to you by your parents. She was loaned to you by your children. - Kenyan Proverb
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. - Sidney Sheldon
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences… To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It’s very simple… - Thomas Berry
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative – an Earth Jurisprudence. - Thomas Berry
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