by David Brower with Steve Chapple.

Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

by David Brower with Steve Chapple.

Asked how many people the Earth can sustain indefinitely, Harvard professor E. O. Wilson, certainly one of the world's great biologists, replied: "If they have the appetite for resources of Japan and the United States, 200 million." This was reported to me in Kyoto by Dr. David Suzuki, Canadian biologist and commentator. I'd never heard so low a figure, and finally got Professor Wilson on the telephone to check up. Had he said that? "No," he responded, "but it sounds reasonable."

by Gareth Patterson.

Recently I began to understand that unless we address the health of the earth, collectively and holistically, the symptoms of our own inner health will persist and will worsen. The health of the planet and our own inner health are one.

by Dirk Mathison.

I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. --ROSA PARKS, on her decision to sit in the white's only section of a bus.

by the Children's Forum.

This message was drafted, debated, and agreed to by more than 300 delegates of the Children's Forum held in conjunction with the United Nations Special Session on Children. Representatives of the forum delivered the message to world leaders at the UN General Assembly on May 8th, 2002.

by Neale Donald Walsch.

The events that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001, have made it desperately obvious that our world must be changed, or soon there may be no world to change at all. I am reminded here of the wonderful soul-searching inquiry of the Jewish tradition: If not now, when? If not me, who?

by Julia Butterfly Hill.

Like many teenagers, I rebelled against my upbringing and questioned the way I was raised. Because we were extremely poor and religious, I rebelled by valuing money and deviating from organized religion. I decided to study business in college because I truly believed that our value in society was measured by our financial wealth.

by Daisaku Ikeda.

The destruction of nature is the destruction of humanity. Nature is our home. All life on this planet, including, of course, human life, was born from the natural environment. We don't owe our existence to machines or science. Because of that, the further we alienate ourselves from nature, the more unbalanced we become. Our future as a species is grim unless we recognize this.

by bobby jennings

Special? We want to be special? Then we need to act special. Why? Because....... As my friend Forest Gump would say. Special is as Special does

by Tzvi Freeman.

The greatest discovery of the millennium happened near its very end. It was the discovery -- when we looked back from outer space -- of Planet Earth. A shining jewel in the vast darkness. It was then that we realized everything our spirits ever wanted was here. That we need her and she needs us. Our destiny is hers and hers is ours. For we are one.

by Kory Johnson.

Many children in our small community died from birth defects, thirty-one altogether. But, as our local paper, the New Times, said, "Although the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) was aware that children were dying with abnormal rates of leukemia on the west side, the state agency had refused to investigate and had, in fact, labored to suppress information on the [cancer] cluster."

by bobby jennings

Transformations is a column about mankind?s evolution towards the purity of justice, fairness, equality, freedom, and absence of tyranny.

by Paul Hawken.

The very practices that bring us the goods and services we desire are destroying the earth. Given current corporate practices, not one wildlife reserve, wilderness, or indigenous culture will survive the global market economy. We are losing our forests, fisheries, coral reefs, topsoil, water, biodiversity, and climatic stability. The land, sea, and air have been functionally transformed from life-supporting systems into repositories for waste.

by Danila Oder.

The question the media focuses on, is "will irradiated food harm my health?" We don't know, because there aren't any long-term human health studies, plus the studies the FDA used to approve irradiation all have problems. Therefore we need labels so people can choose not to buy irradiated food.

by David Brower.

A global CPR service: C for conservation, P for preservation, and R for restoration. It comes down to some fundamental requirements. Don't get rid of anything you can't replace, for example, such as species. Of course, we're getting rid of one species about every twenty minutes, because we don't understand the true value of nature.

by Betsy Thompson

When I was a kid, I remember being fascinated by animal crackers. Not only did I love how they tasted, but I loved how they felt, how they looked, and how they were packaged.

by Anne Rowthorn.

This is the time...to stand in awe before Earth and all the stars. There is a Buddhist term, mindfulness, which quite simply describes the energy to experience the present. Mindfulness is to be aware and alive to what is going on within and without.

by Dr. William Vayda

Modern industry is now using more than 100,000 chemicals, of which 575 have already been declared dangerous by the U.S. government. Most, if not all, chemicals can interact with one another so that their effect becomes greater than the sum of their parts. This is called the "synergistic effect."