John Seed - ‘Beyond Anthropocentrism’

Today’s Green Thought comes from the essay ‘Beyond Anthropocentrism’ by John Seed in the 1988 book ‘Thinking like a Mountaln’.

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

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/

We are the rocks dancing……..It is they that are the immortal part of us.

Paul Hawken -The Ecology of Commerce

Today’s Green Thought comes from  Paul Hawken in The Ecology of Commerce in 1994

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

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

Albert Einstein

Today’s Green Thought comes from Albert Einstein (1946)

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"Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing the power to make great decisions for good and evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

Rene Dubos- ‘Environmental Determinants of Human Life’.

Today’s Green Thought comes from  Rene Dubos’ 1968 essay ‘Environmental Determinants of Human Life’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dubos

Humans can adapt (via culture) to ‘starless skies, treeless avenues, shapeless buildings, tasteless bread, joyless celebrations, spiritless pleasures – and to a life without reference for the past, love for the present or poetical anticipations of the future’ but ‘ it is questionable that man can retain his physical and mental health if he loses contact with the natural forces that have shaped his biological and mental nature’.