Ecology

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves."

🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

🇺🇸Jared Diamond

Literature

b. 1937

"Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person."

🇸🇪Greta Thunberg

Social Activism

Fridays for Future

b. 2003

"We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?"

🇬🇧Gregory Bateson

Science

1904–1980

"We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong"

🇨🇦Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Social Activism

environmentalism

b. 1979

"If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it."

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."

🇬🇧Helena Norberg-Hodge

Entertainment

b. 1946

"For our species to have a future, it must be local."

🇺🇸Diana Gabaldon

Literature

b. 1952

"Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done."

"We are part of the ecosystem, although because we did not evolve as humans, I feel we are like an invasive species. The bottom line is that we take out of the ocean what we like, and throw in what we don’t want."

🇯🇵Masanobu Fukuoka

Philosophy

1913–2008

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

🇮🇳Maneka Gandhi

Politics

b. 1956

"Has prostitution come to an end because of warnings against it?"

🇺🇸Elizabeth Kolbert

Literature

b. 1961

"After a mass extinction, it has generally tended to take many millions of years for life to recover. It's not something that you bounce back from, from one day to the next."

🇺🇸Aldo Leopold

Science

1887–1948

"Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization."

"The historic opportunity now is to present an interest free economy as a third type of solution which is to be found neither in communism nor in capitalism but transcends both."