John Muir

This weeks Green Thought is taken from the writings of John Muir (1838 – 1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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

http://www.jmt.org/

Todays is taken from A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf , page 164.

There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

Which he later (page 110 in My First Summer in the Sierra) developed into

 ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe’.

Left Bio Group

This weeks Green Thought is a line often used on the e-mails of David Orton’s ‘Left Bio Group’ – a group within the deep ecology movement, which is subversive of the existing industrial society. http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/index.htm

There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave.

David Orton

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late ecologist, writer and environmental activist David Orton (died last week).

An industrial capitalist society, that does not recognize ecological limits but only perpetual economic expansion and has the profit motive as driver, will eventually consume and destroy itself.

Anyone wishing to see more of David’s writings should go to   http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/index.htm

Donella Meadows

Today’s Green Thought comes from Donella Meadows

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

http://www.sustainer.org/

http://www.sustainer.org/?page_id=90

 Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Aldo Leopold - Round River

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from Aldo Leopolds’ Round River (written in the 30’s and 40’s).

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

http://www.aldoleopold.org/

‘One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise’.