Too often humans have been parasites on our planet, depleting
resources and leaving a trail of toxins. And in turn, our planet has become our
predator….
—Dr Alan Greene, interview
with Wendy Gabriel in Minneapolis Green Living Examiner
(Thanks to
Bethe Almeras for bringing this to my attention)
The meta-question for all of us is this: which civilization are you a designer for? The one that's dying, or the one we're trying to create?
--Paul Hawken, CEO Pax Group and Natural Capital Institute, at Art Center Summit 2009
If I had asked them what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses."
Recently @Pistachio instigated an exchange on "courage" on Twitter.
Courage:
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
-John Wayne
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Dubois
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Unless a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune so no one will suspect I'm afraid...
-Oscar Hammerstein
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
- Bernadette Devlin
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun, though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
-Frances Rodman
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-R. G. Ingersoll
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-Aesop
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
-La Rochefoucauld
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
-Baltasar Gracian
Courage is the price that Love extracts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
-G. K. Chesterton
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come.
-Cormac McCarthy
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
-Napoleon
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
-C. S. Lewis
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.
-Dag Hammarskjold
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back. But they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification and as its natural consequences, practice of non-violence. Now is the time to share with all life on our maltreated earth through the deepening identification with life forms and the greater units, the ecosystems, and Gaia, the fabulous, old planet of ours.
—Arne Naess, 1912-12 Jan 2009, Norwegian philosopher, mountain climber, and founder of Deep Ecology
(Mr. Naess recent death was brought to my attention by an article in Grist)
Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking.
--Fred W. Friendly, 1915-1998, broadcast journalist
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
May the Eternal One, our Father in heaven, bless every effort to eliminate from our world any misuse of religion as an excuse for hatred or violence.
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