“The thing that you have to understand about nature and natural law is, there’s no mercy…. There’s only law. And if you don’t understand that law and you don’t abide by that law, you will suffer the consequence. Whether you… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share
“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from damage, as well as from dangerous privatization. Judicial decisions dating from the beginning of the United… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“The thing that you have to understand about nature and natural law is, there’s no mercy…. There’s only law. And if you don’t understand that law and you don’t abide by that law, you will suffer the consequence. Whether you agree with it, understand it, comprehend it, it doesn’t make any difference. You’re going to suffer the consequence, and that’s… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share
“You can’t negotiate with a beetle. You are now dealing with natural law. And if you don’t understand natural law, you will soon.” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“As James Gustave Speth wrote in his book A Bridge at the Edge of the World, if we continue business as usual, the world… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“old Indian proverb, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children,” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Climate crisis presents nearly unfathomable urgency because of what scientists call “tipping points” – climate tripwires, so to speak. These thresholds, caused by human… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Scientists warn that only a narrow window of opportunity remains in which to address climate emergency and other environmental calamities before irrevocable tipping points… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Thomas Friedman captures the twin tasks when he says: “Avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable.” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Often it does not matter much what the law says; the politics will circumvent it. Every devastated watershed, every new mile of sprawl, every… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Deserving particular mention is Julia Olson, who is coordinating the worldwide atmospheric trust litigation campaign (through Our Children’s Trust) and whose perseverance and embrace… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
