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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

Cree Indian Proverb

There must be more to life than having everything!

Maurice Sendak

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.

Quoted in Time

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.

Unknown

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

William Ruckelshaus

U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.

Environmental Defense Fund advertisement

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Unknown

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Kin Hubbard

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Unknown

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Nicholas Johnson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

E.F. Schumacker

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Henrik Tikkanen

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

Al Gore

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

Unknown

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

Unknown

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

John Clapham

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Richard Wilkinson

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