David Ehrenfeld Quotes

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.

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

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.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

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