Atmosphere

Surroundings

The natural world in which people, animals and plants live

A seed while growing make no sound however a tree while falling make huge noise. Creation is quite, destruction is noise.

Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us

– Henry Tikkanen

Increase our foot prints in history by reducing our carbon foot prints today.

– Hemant C. Lodha

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.                         – Alan M. Eddison

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

– William Ruckelshaus

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

– Henry David Thoreau

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best timeis now.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

There is sufficiency in the world for Man’s Need but Not for Man’s Greed.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.                          – James G. Watt

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

– Rabindranath Tagore

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.                                                                             – Aldo Leopold

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

– American Proverb

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

– Jean Jacques Rousseau

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and awardwinning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honour and prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours’.

” How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked..

“Why sir, “said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, crosspollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.

If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour’s corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions!

Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well.

The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.

SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION. IT IS VERY OFTEN A PARTICIPATIVE AND COLLECTIVE PROCESS

“The world is finite, resources are scarce,

Things are bad and will be worse,

Coal is burned and gas exploded,

Forests out and soil eroded,

Wells are dry and air polluted,

Dust is blowing, trees are uprooted,

Oil is going, ores depleted,

Drains receive what is excreted,

Land is sinking, seas are rising,

Man is far too enterprising,

Fires will rage with man to fan it,

Soon we will have a plundered planet.”

1. E Boulding