50. "Remember, your mind
is not your own. It is a gift from nature. It is imperative to
use it positively, constructively. To do otherwise, to use it
for worry, anger or negativity is to abuse the mighty gift."
- Taoist Master Hua Ching Ni
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51. With regard to domestication,
"The human relationship to the natural world was gradually
changed from one of respect for and participation in its elliptical
wholeness, to one of detachment, management, control and finally
domination."
- Chellis Glendinning
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52. "Insanity is a perfectly
rational adjustment to an insane world."
...........- R.D. Laing
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53. "Except
during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man
manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
...........George Bernard Shaw
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54. "Most of us have become
Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average,
society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9%
of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence
in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never
have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop.
Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void
within us that bullies us into our dilemmas."
-Project NatureConnect
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disagree.....................so
partially agree...........................fffully agree
55. "A human being is
part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited
in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a
few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
...........- Albert Einstein
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partially agree...........................fffully agree
56. "Until mankind can
extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things,
he will never, himself, know peace."
- Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize, l950
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partially agree...........................fffully agree
57. "There is an ecological
unconscious that can be drawn on to restore people to harmony
with the natural world, a bond between our species and the planet
as tenacious as the sexual instincts Freud found in the psyche."
- Theodore Roszak
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58. "This is what you
shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals..."
- Walt Whitman
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partially agree...........................fffully agree
59. "In
a democracy, in order to learn to unashamedly love nature and
reach our hopes and ideals, we need a readily available psychological
process that reverses our anti-nature programing and heightens
our innate ability to feel and validate natural attractions.
"
...........-Project NatureConnect
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