Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

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"You cannot share your life in a meaningful way with any animals such as a dog, cat, rabbit, bird, rat, pig, horse and so many more and not know that we are not the only sentient and sapient beings on the planet."

- Jane Goodall

Awareness

"You cannot share your life with a dog … or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings."

- Jane Goodall

Awareness

"We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it."

- Jane Goodall

Awareness

"You cannot share your life in a meaningful way with any animals such as a dog, cat, rabbit, bird, rat, pig, horse and so many more and not know that we are not the only sentient and sapient beings on the planet."

- Jane Goodall

Awareness

"I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees."

- Jane Goodall

Awareness

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

Environment

"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

Environment