World Environment Day - They've Said It All

What to say more when others have said it all:

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin

“We are of the earth earthy. If earth is not, we are not. I feel nearer God by feeling Him through the Earth. In bowing to the Earth, I at once realise my indebtedness to Him; and if I am a worthy child of that Mother, I shall at once reduce myself to dust and rejoice in establishing kinship with not only with the lowliest of human beings, but also with the lowest forms of creation whose fate-reduction to dust ~ I have to share with them.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~ Cree Indian Proverb

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb

Yes, what to say more….

However, my own little thoughts about Nature/Environment is here: (though the origination of the thought was spurred by the Global Warming/Climate Change agenda:

http://devika-theunheardvoice.blogspot.com/2008/07/pace-down-enjoy-natures-free-lunch.html

And, I am with Lord Byron when he says:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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