Greg Reitman quotes

If we are to transform the world, we must first begin by transforming ourselves.
-- Greg Reitman

#World #Firsts #Transforming

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.
-- Greg Reitman

#Tree #World #Natural

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.
-- Greg Reitman

#Tree #Environment #Treats

We are each a microcosm; if each of our individual worlds is in balance, the whole planet is in balance.
-- Greg Reitman

#Balance #World #Individual

Change begins within: the world is as you are.
-- Greg Reitman

#World

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.