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We should all
want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call home. But
most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We are
wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. Therefore,
when we read about groups and organisations calling for a 'green revolution' and
a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their
ideas.

However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is
permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the
environment. You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the
influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to
promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the
implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely
express:

(references and sources for the quotes below can be found
here)

"The
common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we
came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,

water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All
these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only
through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real
enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome,
premier
environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations

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"We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the
public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make
simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any
doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being
effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,

Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC
reports

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"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if
the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in
terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,

President of the UN Foundation

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"No matter if the science of global warming is all
phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about
justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former
Canadian Minister of the Environment

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“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our
recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate
models.”
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate
Prediction and Research

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“The models are convenient fictions
that
provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame,
climate
modeler, Oxford University

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"I
believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts
on
how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al
Gore,
Climate Change activist

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"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what
people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of
Greenpeace

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"The
only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the
possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor Daniel
Botkin

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"The climate crisis is
not a political issue, it is a moral and
spiritual challenge to all of
humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to
a higher level."
-
Al
Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
speech

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"We
are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major
crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive
member

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"Humanity
is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the
world's scientists are
right, we have just ten years to avert a
major catastrophe that could send
our entire planet's climate system
into a tail-spin of epic destruction
involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves
beyond anything we have
ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own
making."
- Al Gore,
An Inconvenient Truth

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"We
are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,
despite the fact that most
people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James Hansen,
NASA
researcher

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"By the end of this century climate change will reduce
the human
population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the
Arctic."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of Gaia

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"Climate
Change will result in a catastrophic global sea level
rise of
seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida and
would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace
International

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"This planet is on course for a catastrophe.
The
existence of Life itself is at stake."
- Dr Tim
Flannery,
Principal Research Scientist

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"Coal
makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming.
It's ruining our
country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. Senate
majority leader

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"Climate Change is the greatest
threat that
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela
Merkel,
German Chancellor

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"Climate
change is real. Not only is it real, it's here,
and its effects are giving
rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural
disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President

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"We
simply must do everything we can in our power to
slow down global warming
before it is too late."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Governor of
California

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"Climate
change should be seen as the
greatest challenge to ever face
mankind."
- Prince Charles

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"Climate
change makes us all global citizens,
we are truly all in this
together."
- Gordon Brown,
British Prime
Minister

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"We have reached the critical moment of decision on
climate change.
Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably
irresponsible.
We urgently require a global environmental
revolution."
- Tony Blair,
former British
PM

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"We
are close to a time when all of humankind
will envision a global agenda that
encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes of
poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the
earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the
Balance

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"In
Nature organic growth proceeds according
to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such
a ‘master plan’ is
missing from the process of growth
and development of
the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan
for
sustainable growth and world development based on global
allocation
of all resources and a new global economic system.
Ten or twenty years form
today it will probably be too late."
- Club of
Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point

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"We need a new paradigm of
development in
which the environment will be a priority.
World
civilization as we know it will soon end.
We have very little time and we
must act.
If we can address the environmental problem,
it will have to
be done within a new system, a
new paradigm. We have to change our mindset,

the way humankind views the world."
- Mikhail
Gorbachev,
founder of Green Cross International

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"The
concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,
indeed a sacred principle
of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only slowly
and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental
cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance
report

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"Democracy
is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and
it is unaware of its own
limits. These facts must be faced squarely.
Sacrilegious though this may
sound, democracy is no longer well
suited for the tasks ahead. The
complexity and the technical nature
of many of today’s problems do not
always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the
right time."
- Club of Rome,
The
First Global Revolution

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"The
emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization
and the need for vigorous
action in the interest of the entire global
community will inevitably have
multiple political consequences.
Perhaps the most important of them will be a
gradual change
in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it
must
assume some aspects of a world government."
- Mikhail
Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum

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"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to
be a
new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a
sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail
Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter

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"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United
Nations system,
I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for
proper
Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present

political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will lead to
the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore absolutely and
urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN Assistant
Secretary General,

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"Nations
are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty
to the international
community and beginning to create a
new system of international
environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable
crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute

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"Regionalism
must precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance
from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up through
to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global
Governance

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"A
keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that
fundamental changes
will have to take place in the world order
and its power structures, in the
distribution of wealth and income.
Perhaps only a new and enlightened
humanism
can permit mankind to negotiate this transition."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning
Point

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"The
alternative to the existing world order can only
emerge as a result of a new
human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way
of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World
Forum

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"We
require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily.
Minor
shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,
rhetoric
offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of
appeasement,
designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that
sacrifice, struggle
and a wrenching transformation
of society will not be necessary."
-
Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Adopting
a central organizing principle...
means embarking on an all-out effort to use
every
policy and program, every law and institution...
to halt the
destruction of the environment."
- Al
Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Effective
execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human
society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced a major shift in the
priorities of both
governments and individuals and an
unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This
shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences
of
every human action be integrated into individual and
collective
decision-making at every level."
- UN Agenda
21

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"The current course of development is thus clearly
unsustainable.
Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal
measures.
More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the
current
trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
Fundamental economic,
social and cultural changes that
address the root causes of poverty and
environmental
degradation are required and they are required now."
–
from the Earth Charter website

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"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society,

which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
-
David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth

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"If
we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world
ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society
under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism"
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser
of Earth First!

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"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized
civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that
about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment
Programme

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"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop
the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into
line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource
situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population
Studies

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"The
only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States.
We can't let other countries have the same
number of cars, the amount of
industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third World
countries right where they are."
- Michael
Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund

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"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest
of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality
control."
- Professor Maurice King

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"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place
for
capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and
plowed land,
halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,
free shackled rivers and
return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled land."
-
David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!

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"Complex
technology of any sort is an assault on
human dignity. It would be little
short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant
energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory Lovins,
Rocky Mountain Institute

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"The
prospect of cheap fusion energy is the
worst thing that could happen to the
planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis
Foundation

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"Giving
society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot
child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul
Ehrlich, Stanford University

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"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath
the
surface of the earth is a willful expansion
of our dysfunctional civilization
into Nature."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the
Balance

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"The
big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too well
economically and burning too much oil."
– Sir James
Lovelock,
BBC Interview

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"My
three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 million
worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure
and see wilderness, with
it’s full complement of species,
returning throughout the world."

-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!

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"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of
the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil
fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not
sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit

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"Mankind
is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on the
earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane Society

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"Human
beings, as a species,
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of Earth
First! Journal

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"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like
a
pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."
- Sir
James Lovelock,
Healing Gaia

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"The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is Man."
-
Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point

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"A
cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells;
the population explosion
is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our efforts from
the treatment of the symptoms to
the cutting out of the cancer. The
operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless
decisions.''
- Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb

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"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history,

but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in
the number
of game animals and the need to adjust
the cull to the size of the surplus
population."
- Prince Philip,
preface of
Down to Earth

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"A
reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society
at the present North
American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more frugal
European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
-
United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment

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"A
total population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from present
levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major
UN donor

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"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is
hence
more than 500 million but less than one billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind

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"One
America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a
terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we must
eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it's
just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO
Courier

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"If
I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer virus to
lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund

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"I
suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important part in
balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First!
Journal

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"The
extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good
thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!

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“The
extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not
billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve
every
problem on Earth - social and environmental.”
- Ingrid Newkirk,
former
President of PETA

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"Childbearing
should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a
government license.
All potential parents should be required to
use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens
chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
first Executive
Director of the Sierra Club

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"The
fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon
the emergence of a new
faith in the future.
Armed with such a faith, we might find
it possible
to resanctify the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and

scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament
and
then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of
international crises
into the future Utopia of humanist hope."
- Club of
Rome,
Goals for Mankind

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"What an incredible planet in the universe this will be
when
we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and harmony with
our divine Earth,
with each other and with the heavens."
-
Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary
General

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"The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend
on
her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human
species has
been shaped by her in the womb of evolution....
Our salvation depends upon
our ability
to create a religion of nature."
- Rene Dubos,

board member, Planetary Citizens

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"Each
element, plant, insect, fish and animal
represents a certain aspect of Gaia's
- and our - being.
In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and awareness
-
currently lost in self-destructive madness.
We must acknowledge, respect and
love her for being
the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves.

Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."
- Prof. Michael J.
Cohen,
Ecopsychologist

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"It
is the responsibility of each human being today to
choose between the force
of darkness and the force of light.
We must therefore transform our
attitudes, and adopt a renewed
respect for the superior laws of Divine
Nature."
- Maurice
Strong,
first Secretary General of UNEP

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"The spirit of our planet is stirring!
The Consciousness of
Goddess Earth
is now rising against all odds,
in spite of millennia of
suppression,
repression and oppression inflicted on Her
by a hubristic
and misguided humanity.

The Earth is a living entity, a biological
organism
with psychic and spiritual dimensions.
With the expansion of
the patriarchal religions
that focused on a male God majestically

stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the
Universe, the memory
of our planet's innate Divinity
was repressed and banished into the

collective unconscious of humanity."
- Envision
Earth

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"Still more important is the implication that
the evolution of
homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and
his
increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly
increased
Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and
aware
of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through
the
eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting
spacecraft.

Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity
for
conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and
drive are hers
to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man
is by no means fully
established; we are not yet a truly collective
species, corralled and tamed
as an integral part of the biosphere,
as we are as individual creatures. It
may be that the destiny of
mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce,
destructive, and
greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into
a
compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all
creatures which
constitutes Gaia."
– Sir James
Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look At Life

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"Little
by little a planetary prayer book is
thus being composed by an increasingly
united
humanity seeking its oneness. Once again,
but this time on a
universal scale, humankind is
seeking no less than its reunion with
'divine,'
its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus
call our
earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly
see no difference between our earth
and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again
upon
humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age
and become what we
were always meant to be:
the planet of god."
- Robert Muller,

UN Assistant Secretary General

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"What
if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin birth is no
miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .
She is of this
Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,
she is the source of life
everlasting and is alive now;
she gave birth to humankind and we are part of
her."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Ages of
Gaia

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"Nature
is my god. To me, nature is sacred;
trees are my temples and forests are my
cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Green Cross
International

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"The
spiritual sense of our place in nature...
can be traced to the origins of
human civilization....
The last vestige of organized goddess worship
was
eliminated by Christianity."
- Al
Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Christianity
is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the
Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, founder of
Animal Rights

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"I
pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.
Its water, land and
living things and all its human hearts."
- Global Education
Associates,
The Earth Pledge

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"By
fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth
in all its
dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of
responsibility to self
to others and to the planet."
- Global Alliance for Transforming
Education

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"The
earth is not dead matter. She is alive.
Now begin to speak to the earth as
you walk.
You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.
Send
your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your
heart touching upon the
heart of the planet. Say to her
whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I
love you.
Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all
your
creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.
On behalf of the human race,
I ask forgiveness
for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth"
- US Student Textbook,
"Prayer to the
Earth"

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