Pope John Paul II Quotes

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.

I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

In nature nothing exists alone.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.