Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
Native American Proverb (as seen in Pagosa Springs, CO)
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Sunday, October 20, 2019
I do not disapprove the use we make of things the earth produces, nor doubt, in the least, of the power and fertility of Nature, and of its application to our necessities: I very well see that pikes and swallows live by her laws; but I mistrust the inventions of our mind, our knowledge and art, to countenance which, we have abandoned Nature and her rules, and wherein we keep no bounds nor moderation.
Montaigne
Montaigne
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Labels:
biodiversity,
capitalism,
civilization,
climate change,
conservation,
doom,
ecology,
economics,
entanglement,
environment,
existence,
globalization,
humans,
mortality,
nature,
plants,
progress,
society,
trees
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