We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
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Stephen Jay Gould
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
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Daniel Quinn
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid...
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Joel Salatin
The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
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Judah Freed
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.
The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy – not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with...
