QUOTES: tasty inspirational lines from the wise!

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Mindfulness is an awareness that's cultivated by paying attention on purpose, and in the present moment, which is the only moment we are ever alive in.
-John Kabat-Zinn , Transcript from "The Spirit of Things" ABC Radio National, 26th November 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1793842.htm

We are, in terms of what we do to the environment, a fairly disgusting species and although man, as none other, can modify his environment, he will have to fit in with it eventually or sooner or later, if he goes on exterminating his surroundings, he will exterminate himself!
-Lady Eve Balfour in Andre Leu, "Why are we organic?" Hunter Organics Magazine, Winter 2003, p6.

There is more information
of a higher order of sophistication and complexity
stored in afew square yards of forest
than there is in all the libraries of mankind
-Snyder in CA Bowers (1993). Education, Cultural Myths and the Ecological Crisis. State University of New York Press

To the dull mind nature is leaden.
To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
- Nancy Newhall

..Singing this one works best!...
I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.If I could, I surely would.
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet.
Yes I would. If I could, I surely would.
-Paul Simon (1970) "El Condor Pasa"
Side 1 Track 2 on Simon& Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water"

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Sustainability will always be re-established, as the unsustainable cannot last.
-"Golden Feelings". Andrew Spannenberg (2005) aspannenberg@iprimus.com.au

Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
-A Green Manifesto for the 1990's. Penny Kemp and Derek Wall