Stan Rowes - ‘Home Place: Essays on Ecology’.

An unshakeable ethic for the Ecosphere will emerge when we believe in our heart and minds our worldly environment is a reality more important than me, you and all of us. When such a conviction about Nature becomes second nature, we will know that we are part of the ecological whole that produced us and sustains us.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Stan Rowes 1990 book ‘Home Place: Essays on Ecology’.

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

 

T.S.Eliot - ‘Choruses from the Rock’

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from ‘Choruses from the Rock’ (1934) by T.S.Eliot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S_Elliot

http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2010/06/16/choruses-from-the-rock-t-s-eliot/

Christabel Pankhurst

We got further smashing windows than we ever got letting them smash our heads.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from the suffragette Christabel Pankhurst (1880 – 1958), daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and sister to Sylvia Pankhurst and Adela Pankhurst.

 

Aldo Leopold - ‘The Conservation Ethic’

We of the machine age admire ourselves for our mechanical ingenuity; we harness cars to the solar energy impounded in carboniferous forests; we fly in mechanical birds; we make the ether carry our words or even our pictures. But are these not in one sense mere parlor tricks compared with our utter ineptitude in keeping land fit to live upon? Our engineering has attained the pearly gates of a near millennium, but our applied biology still lives in nomad’s tents of the Stone Age. If our system of land-use happens to be self-perpetuating, we stay. If it happens to be self-destructive we move, like Abraham, to pastures new.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from ‘The Conservation Ethic’ – an essay written in 1933 by Aldo Leopold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from Mary Anne Evans’s (pen name George Eliot) 1872 book ‘Middlemarch : a study of provincial life’. This is a description of the typical mindset of the time and place.

Is it familiar ?

 

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

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