"There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents."

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Source : "Preston Manning on the state of the conservative movement" by Aaron Wherry, www.macleans.ca. March 9, 2013.

Preston Manning

#Loss Quotes #Government Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.”
“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.”
“Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!”

Source : Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.92, Small Beer Press
“Happiness is very simple and minimal.”
“When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.”
“Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.”

Source : "Alice". Video Game, m.imdb.com. 2000.
“It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.”
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source : H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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