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“If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.”
― David Jaber

“Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.”
― David Jaber, Our Historic Moment: Purpose, Planet and Places to Intervene

“The direction of research . . .should be:
- toward non-violence rather than violence,
- towards a harmonious cooperation with nature rather than with warfare against nature;
- towards the noiseless, low-energy, elegant, and economical solutions normally applied in nature rather than [our often] noisy, high-energy, brutal, wasteful, and clumsy solutions.”
― E.F. Schumacher

“. . . our most important task is to get off our present collision course. And who is there to tackle such a task? I think every one of us, whether old or young, powerful or powerless, rich or poor, influential or uninfluential.”
― E.F. Schumacher

“To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.”
― E.F. Schumacher

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the
single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this
world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the
environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

“We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality.”
― Wangari Maathai

“We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.”
― Oren Lyons

“Define for yourselves your directions.”
― Oren Lyons

“In our perception all life is equal, and that includes the birds, animals, things that grow, things that swim. All life is equal in our perception.”
― Oren Lyons