Monday 25 March 2013

Groucho Marx

"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."

Today’s Green Thought comes from Groucho Marx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx

Monday 18 March 2013

Donella Meadows

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late Donella Meadows
(1941- 2001) pioneering American environmental scientist, and writer.
 

Monday 11 March 2013

John G.Bennet

All life is One, and everything that lives is holy.
Plants, animals and men, all must eat to live and nourish one another.
We bless the lives that have died to give us our food.
Let us eat consciously, resolving by our work to pay the debt of our existence.

Today’s Green Thought is the pre-meal grace recited by the disciples of the British social philosopher John G.Bennet (1897-1974).

http://www.jgbennett.net/

http://blogbennettbooks.wordpress.com/

Monday 4 March 2013

Chief Seattle

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.


Today’s Green Thought comes from Chief Seattle (c.1780 - 1866), the Duwamish chief (or his speech writer). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle