Earth Community Quotes:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac pt. 3 (1949)

topic: Beauty, Nature, Integrity, Land Use, Deep Ecology

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Community, Earth, Foundation, Ten Commandments, Earth Community

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Thinking, Community, Earth, Earth Community

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Community, Earth, Dimensions, Earth Community

The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.

- David Spangler

topic: Hero, Home, Space, Builder, Earth Community

So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then we will continue our present course, with its devastating consequences on the entire Earth community... We need only listen to what the Earth is telling us... the time has come when we will listen, or we will die.

- Thomas Berry

source: Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

topic: Long, Community, Environmental, Earth Community