Quotes About Balance

We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.

We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.

We ourselves (one single species) have taken over vast tracts of the inhabitable surface of the planet. Surely, we should allow those other creatures we share the planet with to retain some part of their ancient heritage.

We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then destroy them.

To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world!

With or without us, the wild will return. .... It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance. The living world has survived mass extinctions several times before. But we humans cannot assume that we will do the same.

Anybody who thinks there can be limitless growth in a static, limited environment is either mad or an economist.

It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance.

If we were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse.

We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them.

The greater the biodiversity, the more secure will be all life on Earth,

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either.

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert

It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in the process. As the old proverb cautions: if you chase two rabbits, you catch neither.

Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas. That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.

It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain. Once a certain threshold of pain is passed, no amount of pleasure can compensate for it.

Therefore, the general consensus is that diets should provide about 55 per cent of energy from carbohydrates, 30 per cent from fat, and 15 per cent from protein.

What's the good news? -Pardon? -You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way. -There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Half circus and half Supreme Court.

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.