„The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.“

— Rachel Carson, Context: The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics. Letter to the editor, Washington Post (1953); quoted in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 99

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„We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.“

— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Context: Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

„The nation thus situated, and enjoying forest, mineral, and agricultural resources unequalled, if endowed also with moral energies adequate to the achievement of great enterprises, and favored with a Government adapted to their character and condition, must command the empire of the seas, which alone is real empire.“

— William H. Seward American lawyer and politician 1801 - 1872

„To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.“

— Thiruvalluvar Tamil poet and philosopher
Verse LXVI.10

„The fact is that it is the land that has made us all Americans, and the moral is that it is the land which must be preserved to save our Americanism. Soil erosion, forest exploitation, and wildlife destruction are more insidious anti-American activities than Communism, Fascism, or foreign propagandizing.“

— Howard Zahniser American environmentalist 1906 - 1964
"Indoors and Out", Nature Magazine number 33 (May 1940) p. 255, quoted in Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever (2005) p. 45

„The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.“

— Wendell Berry, Given

„Heavy, clayey soils hold more water with less nutrient-leaching. The structural aggregates of heavy soils retain nutrients but allow water to drain around them. Light soils are extremely sensitive to excess water.“

— Ken Kern American writer
p, 125

„The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.“

— J. Paul Getty American industrialist 1892 - 1976

„The certain way to victory... lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort... combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...“

— Yoshijirō Umezu Japanese general 1882 - 1949
Quoted in "Suicide Squads: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II" - Page 267 - by Richard O'Neill - History - 1981.

„Leaving behind son and wife, and father and mother, and wealth and grain, and relatives, and sensual pleasures to the limit, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
'This is an attachment; here there is little happiness, and little satisfaction; here there is very much misery; this is a hook.' Knowing this, a thoughtful man should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
Having torn one's fetters asunder, like a fish breaking a net in the water, not returning, like a fire not going back to what is already burned, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.“

— Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -566 - -483 v.Chr
§ 60-62

„In the early days our forefathers could cut down a forest or exhaust the fertility of a farm and then blithely move to a new forest or a new farm... The highest concept of statesmanship was to make it possible for the eager, aggressive pioneer to possess, to despoil and then repeat the process indefinitely.... [Shortsided and unchecked greed resulted in] denuded forests, floods, droughts, a disappearing water table, erosion, a less stable and equable climate, a vanishing wildlife.“

— Harold L. Ickes American politician 1874 - 1952
as quoted by Douglas H. Strong, Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists (1988) Ch. 7 "Harold Ickes," p.157

„Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.“

— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 347

„There is a scale in the meaning of the word socialist. In France it means about the same thing as a communist, when one uses plain language. When one uses the language of Monsieur Drumont, it means a Jew. In England a socialist is equal to a French conservative republican. In America it means a thief. In Germany it means an ingenious individual of restricted financial resources, who generally fails to blow up some important personage with wet dynamite. In Italy a socialist is an anarchist pure and simple, who wishes to destroy everything existing for the sake of dividing a wealth which does not exist at all. It also means a young man who orders a glass of water and a toothpick at a cafe, and is able to talk politics for a considerable time on this slender nourishment.“

— Francis Marion Crawford Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909) 1854 - 1909

„Best blessing of all is water, And gold like a fiery flame gleaming at night,
Supreme amidst the pride of lordly wealth.“

— Pindar Ancient Greek poet -522 - -446 v.Chr
Context: Best blessing of all is water, And gold like a fiery flame gleaming at night, Supreme amidst the pride of lordly wealth. Olympian 1, line 1-2; page 1 Closer translation: Best is water, but gold stands out blazing like fire <br/>at night beyond haughty wealth.

„Beggening their voyage with salty deep, By sweet water they returned, Big merchants trade not with Gold but with Pearls and Gemstones... such wealth, these Sailors form distant lands had brought.“

— Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai Sufi writer 1690 - 1751
-Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Shah Jo Risalo

„There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.“

— Eugene V. Debs American labor and political leader 1855 - 1926
Context: There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric. Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.

„The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal“

— Michael Foot British politician 1913 - 2010
House of Commons speech (1974)