"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
"Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment." - Sir David Attenborough
"We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: we can enhance life and come to know the Universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless, self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the Cosmos." - Carl Sagan
"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Nature is where we all come from, and it is what we are all made of. And this is not a romantic perspective, it's a fact! When we deny that fact, and deny our own natural needs, we start to suffer." - Erwan Le Corre
“The wide world is all around you. You can fence yourself in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”― Leonardo da Vinci
Calvin to Hobbes: "I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
"Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling." -Richard Dawkins
Cohen (1977:141) summarised the problem by asking: 'If agriculture provides neither better diet, nor greater dietary reliability, nor greater ease, but conversely appears to provide a poorer diet, less reliably, with greater labor costs, why does anyone become a farmer?' - Taken from "The origins of agriculture: a biological perspective and a new hypothesis"
"There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very wuzzy line and it's getting wuzzier all the time." -Jane Goodall
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"A life without parties would be like an endless road without an Inn." - Democritus