We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
- Wendell Berry. “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine,” 1989, What are People For?: Essays, 1990
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
- Marya Mannes. More in Anger, 1.5, 1958
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset. “To the Reader,” Meditations on Quixote, 1914
