#stain

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#economics #lies #sustainability #beauty

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through. ↗

— Glenda Millard

#colours #light #stained-glass #beauty

Inaction is no longer acceptable. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#inaction #sustainability #business

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#green #sustainability #change

Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business. ↗

— John D. Ivanko

#green-business #social-sector #sustainable-living #business

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain! ↗

— Tim Burton

#death

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#back #basics #customer #discipline #end

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world? ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#ecology #economics #environment #sustainability #dreams

Honestly," he said with a grin, "how would that have worked? Oh, hello dream lover. Would you drink some of my blus so I won't murder you in front of all these nice people?" ↗

— Delilah S. Dawson

#dreams

No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ↗

— Sophocles

#noble #speech #stain