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"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), US inventor, architect, and philosopher
Source: Operating Manual for Planet Earth (1969) -
"Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be."Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911–1977), German-born British economist and conservationist
Source: Small Is Beautiful (1973) -
"Conservation is business too."Gaston Vizcarra (1952–), Peruvian ecological entrepreneur and president of Candela Peru
Source: Forbes (April 2000) -
"I am I plus my surroundings, and, if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself."Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish author and philosopher
Source: Meditaciones del Quijote (1914)


