NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1166

• ·       “We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.” ~ Moss Cass

  ·       “I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  ·       “There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” ~ Robert Orben

  ·       “The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

  ·       “Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.” ~ Santosh Kalwar

  ·       “To damage the earth is to damage your children.” ~ Wendell Berry

  ·       “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ John Muir

  ·       “Today we’re dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.” ~ Al Gore