-- From the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice
of the National Association of Realtors
-- not exactly your typical bunch of crazy left-wing progressive bleeding heart treehuggers.
(1) Everything is connected to everything else.
(2) Everything must go somewhere.
(3) Nature knows best.
(4) There is no such thing as a free lunch. --
Barry Commoner
"Every human action has an equal and opposite reaction in nature - Newton's Third Law gone wild."
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty
of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
Aldo Leopold
"I think that one of the things that happens when we experience or observe any creature in the wild
is the inspiration that it gives us about individual freedom, courage, being able to take care of yourself,
take care of your own, and create your own life."
John Denver
from the documentary
"Let This Be a Voice"
"Nature is not in the way, it is the way."
"Even in remote areas, people have a clear sense of environmental threats and how crucial it is to counter them. But in every case they added a caveat: First, bread must be put on the table; one cannot starve today to preserve the environment for tomorrow."
"I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all."
Buy the button.
Image here.
"Every American - conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat - wants a clean environment and safe food. The debate about the environment is not about whether we should protect it, but how we should protect it."
Well, I suppose we can all agree on that --