David Orr - ‘Earth in Mind’

This weeks Green Thought is taken from David Orr’s 1994 book ‘Earth in Mind’.

http://www.davidworr.com/

(introduction to part 1 ‘The problem of education’)

‘If one listens carefully, it may even be possible to hear the Creation groan every year when another batch of smart, degree-holding, but ecologically illiterate, Homo sapiens who are eager to succeed are launched into the biosphere’.

Alan M. Eddison

Today’s Green Thought comes from Alan M. Eddison (the director of Green Earth Affairs headquarters based in Zimbabwe).

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.

Aldo Leopold - 'A Sand County Almanac'

This weeks Green Thought is taken from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac ( written in the 30’s and 40’s).

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

http://www.aldoleopold.org/

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

(from ‘Thinking like a mountain’ in ‘A Sand County Almanac’.)

‘We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness……but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum : ‘In wildness is the salvation of the world’’.

Gandhi

Today’s Green Thought comes from Gandhi

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

 “The rich must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.”