Bigs Quote by David Holmgren

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth -…

— John Wayne

“We become so caught up in our big problems that we ignore the little ones, failing to realize that some of our small problems…

— Ed Catmull

For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should…

— Tony Blair

If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the…

— David Abram

The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn.…

— Louis Agassiz

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the…

— Gore Vidal

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That…

— David Attenborough

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The earth is a living thing, like an animal or a person. When it’s threatened, or attacked, it fights back.” He folded his powerful…

— Renee Shafransky

As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of…

— Rusty Schweickart

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

— John of Damascus