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“Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?”
Source : "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008. 
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“Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.”
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“Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.”
Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.258, Princeton University Press
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“When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.”
Source : Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd
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“Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.”
Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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“Do the small things. If you are running a 10-12 minute mile take a mile off your plan for the day and use the 6 minutes before and after to stretch. A lot of the times we all want to go go go but it's important to stretch the calves and the hamstrings and nutritionally you know?”
Source : Source: brooklynactivemama.com
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“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
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“You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.”
Source : "Whistler Stories". Book by Don Carlos Seitz, 1913.
