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What unifies a movement?
After we go home from the demonstration, are we still a movement?
Only if we're grounded in a shared vision … Having a vision
means we have some fundamental idea of how we want the world
to be … A movement articulates something for the future
… It's not enough to express our individualities. What
kind of a world do you want for everybody? And how can that
world be demonstrated?
- Michael Ventura, Letters
at 3AM
What human beings are in relation to the Earth, the Earth itself
is in relation to the cosmos that we know. The cosmos is not
an object in which we discover life; it is a living subject
in a process of becoming.
- Leonardo Boff, Cry
of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper.
- Bertrand
Russell
The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down
the road.
- Isak Dinesen
Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything
else in the universe.
- John
Muir
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits
of the world.
- Arthur
Schopenhauer
It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point
is to defend and preserve it.
- Edward
Abbey
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
- R.E.M.
We make the world significant by the courage of our questions
and the depth of our answers.
- Carl Sagan
Viel Welt für wenig Geld. (A lot of the world
for little money)
- Popular expression, German
The world won't get no better if we just let it be.
- Harold Melvin, Peace
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing
about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The
photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the
foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath
the moist, gleaning membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising
earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos.
- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent
on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing
else in the universe to do.
- Galileo Galilei
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
Sri Aurobindo
Little round planet in a big universe
Sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed
Depends on what you look at obviously
But even more it depends on the way that you see
- Bruce
Cockburn, Child of the Wind
Earth, isn't this what you want: rising up inside us invisibly
once more?
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Having gained distance and sophistication of perception, we
can turn and recognize who we have been all along. Now it can
dawn on us: we are world knowing self. We can relinquish our
separateness. We can come home again.
- Joanna Macy, World
as Lover, World as Self
When you see the world as lover, every being, every phenomenon,
can become -- if you have a clever, appreciative eye -- an expression
of that ongoing, erotic impulse.
- Joanna Macy, World
as Lover, World as Self
In this cold commodity culture
Where you lay your money down
It's hard enough to notice
That all this world is holy ground
-
Bruce Cockburn, The Gift
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
If the earth spoke, would we listen?
- Conversation
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