Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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