“Nature is our mother. She is not a resource for human consumption.”
Krishna Kant Shukla (1959) Indian Classical musician
Special Message to the Congress on Education (20 February 1961) http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html <br class="br">1961 <br class="br">Context: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
“Nature is our mother. She is not a resource for human consumption.”
Krishna Kant Shukla (1959) Indian Classical musician
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (1954) Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-present)
Source: Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (2021) cited in: " Mozambique: PM Swears Into Office New Permanent Secretaries https://allafrica.com/stories/202105050741.html" in All Africa, 5 May 2021.
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) Author, Theosophist
The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939)
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: A transformation of the environment from a commons to a productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of environmental degradation. This degradation has a long history, which coincides with the history of capitalism but can in no way just be reduced to it. Unfortunately the importance of this transformation has been overlooked or belittled by political ecology so far. It needs to be recognized if we are to organize defense movements of what remains of the commons. This defense constitutes the crucial public task for political action during the eighties. The task must be undertaken urgently because commons can exist without police, but resources cannot. Just as traffic does, computers call for police, and for ever more of them, and in ever more subtle forms.
By definition, resources call for defense by police. Once they are defended, their recovery as commons becomes increasingly difficult. This is a special reason for urgency.
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist
A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981
“All the resources we need are in the mind.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrLQ7DpiWs "Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order"
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher
Source: Creative Convergence, p.20., Science-Religion Dialog
“The most fundamental principle of the organized mind”
Daniel Levitin book The Organized Mind
The Organized Mind (2014)
Context: The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.