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Climate Change Quotes
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“What if there were another system and jurisprudence, based upon the concept that the planet and all of its species have rights — and they have those rights by virtue of their existence as component members of a single Earth community?”
– Thomas Berry (2001)
“We are not trying to save the earth — we are not trying to save the planet. We are trying to save ourselves from ourselves.”
– Tim Rumage, co-founder of This Spaceship Earth
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“We all live down-wind, down-stream, and down-time from everybody else. We need to think, design, and operate in a systems model – a holistic context of dynamic equilibrium.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Do not limit your children to your own learning, for they are born in another time.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Legacy thinking keeps us all as unaware passengers of This Spaceship Earth. We need to let go of thinking that what each of us does is not relevant to TSE; that is the first step to becoming crew.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.”
– E. B. White
“We interact with the environment, as do other living organisms, and as we do, we change the environment. There is no part of the biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere or hydrosphere that we do not use or impact.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
– John Muir
“As parents, we are to sacrifice for our children and not vice versa. Are we defining progress as promoting short term economic gains for a few, or is progress to be defined by increasing the viability and vitality of TSE for the future of all?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
