They said...

Mother Earth

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man – man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.

Chief Seattle of the Puget Sound Suquamish tribe
Speech given when handing his territory and his people to the sovereignty of the US in 1854


All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

It’s the only planet we have got, after all.
William Golding

ABOUT TRUTH

Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man.
M. Gandhi

A man of truth must also be a man of care.
M. Gandhi

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
M. Gandhi

Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it.
M. Gandhi



FOOD

One cannot live well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. (Virginia Wolf)

Organic food consumption is ecological altruism (David Richard, Taste of Life)


ACTIVISM / TEACHING

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the Earth.
Alice Walker

I touch the future, I teach.
Christa McAuliffe

Do what you love, and then you will not have to work a single day of your life
Confucius


Be a student, not a teacher. Even if you find yourself in the role of teacher, remain a student still, sharing with your friends, simply, fresh insights and discoveries.
Paramahansa Yogananda

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

It is not on you to finish a task, but to begin it.
Talmud