Richard St. Barbe Baker

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late Richard St. Barbe Baker, forester and author, reputedly responsible for the planting/preserving of 26 trillion trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_St._Barbe_Baker

This generation may either be the last to exit in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say “I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this destruction of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generation of tomorrow.

'How the non-killing religions spread’ Marvin Harris

Today’s Green Thought is from the 1989 book ‘Our Kind– who we are, where we came from & where we are going’ by the American anthropologist Marvin Harris (from the chapter ‘’How the non-killing religions spread’).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Harris

 

 Interestingly enough, once it was discovered that killing humans on behalf of the state could be reconciled with doctrines of the sacredness of all life, even butterflies and cows, the followers of the new faiths turned out to be a cut above the average soldiers, for they went into battles convinced that their souls would be rewarded if they died in combat.

Martin Luther King Jr

Today’s Green Thought is taken from a speech given by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

 

Unlike plagues of the Dark Ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.

Herodotus

Just to emphasise that the ‘modern fad’ of thinking green isn’t really that modern, today’s Green Thought comes from the 5th century BC greek historian Herodotus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus_Histories

 

 

“man stalks across the landscape and deserts follow in his footsteps”.