Environment day...

I stood at the other end of the crowd. A bit away. And kept looking at the crowd. Environment day celebration in my office.

 

It seems surprising that we are unable to correlate with the part of ourselves unless it has started giving me problems. (Like gobal warming?)

 

Some quotes that I collected just now...

 

 

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

 

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison

 

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?  ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

 

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.  ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

 

Newspapers:  dead trees with information smeared on them.  ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

 

The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.  ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990

 

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach.  Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.  ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society