Preservation Of Nature Quotes

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Abhijit Naskar
“Earth has plenty resources to suffice our need, but no planet has enough resources to suffice our greed.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

Thomas King
“I think that many non-Natives find it hard to understand why Native people are willing to fight so hard to protect their land. In the case of Gwaii Haanas, all you have to do is stand at the ocean’s edge with the cedars at your back and the sky on your shoulders, and you will know.”
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Michael Bassey Johnson
“All we have, nature gave to us.
All we have lost, greed took from us.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Great legacies do what they can to preserve the arts, and natural purity of the land and sea.”
Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

Abhijit Naskar
“Earth Engineer (Sonnet 2336)

Earth has abundant resources to suffice our need,
but no planet has enough to suffice our greed.
Earth is rich, earth is bountiful, like a doting
mother, she provides for all her kids.

There is no economic depression,
only addiction of power and money.
There is no population explosion,
only outbreak of egocentricity.

What's the point of your architecture or engineering
degree, if you can't build a human habitat without
destroying entire ecosystems of other living things!
And you call yourself an engineer, an architect -
a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling.

Reach for the stars all you want,
but anchor your soul in the soil.
Human blood deficient of salt from earth,
leads to a history of mental turmoil.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Abhijit Naskar
“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things!”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Abhijit Naskar
“Reach for the stars all you want,
but anchor your soul in the soil.
Human blood deficient of salt from earth,
leads to a history of mental turmoil.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Abhijit Naskar
“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things! And you call yourself an engineer, an architect - a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat