The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.
Yann Arthus-BertrandRead
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
Interpretation
Environmentalism is a learned passion that develops through experiences in life.
This quote emphasizes that being an environmentalist is not inherent; rather, it is shaped by one's experiences and choices throughout life. It suggests that individual journeys and the awareness gained from them lead to a deeper understanding and commitment to environmental causes.
In practice
In a speech about climate change, one might say, 'As Yann Arthus-Bertrand reminds us, no one is an environmentalist by birth, but through our experiences, we learn to cherish our planet.'
I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.
The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
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