"Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us"

-- Crowfoot

#Native American Quotes #Animal Quotes #Men Quotes

“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”
“Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.”

Source : John B. Cobb (1994). “Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy”
“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”
“I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.”
“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”
“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.”
“Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.”
“I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.”

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