Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not… — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life… — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I… — Doris Roberts Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
