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David Ehrenfeld Quotes

Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live

Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.

David Ehrenfeld
Sadness, Animal, Skills

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

David Ehrenfeld
Green World, Earth Day, Humanity
"The Arrogance of Humanism". Book by David Ehrenfeld, 1978.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

David Ehrenfeld
Land, People, Patriotism
David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

David Ehrenfeld
Selfish, Opposites, Patriotism
David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

David Ehrenfeld
Selfish, Scorpions, Bottles

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