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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

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Besides, food, water, human rights, healthcare and shelter, the most critical issues we have are war and the environment.

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."  - Albert Einstein

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"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." - Audubon

"The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies." - Al Gore

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."  ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

"We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. " - Charles Schume

"…everyone can not be there and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they’re doing and pay attention to whats going on.

To create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media, to shake people out of they’re indifference.

To protest; and by the strength of that protest, to make others protest.”- James Nachtwey, War Photographer

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."  - John Muir

"We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out." - Martin Sheen

The success of the protester is vitally important to all of us. It is the protester that is fighting for the common good.

The phrase, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" was meant to be a proclamation for all people. It was not meant solely for the greedy or the powerful. It was never intended to mean the destruction of our environment or a reason for wars.

We have a real crisis to solve. In fact we have many and something needs to be done sooner rather than later. Time is not  on our side. It needs immediate attention. We have poisoned the oceans, our air and the Earth. We have altered the balance of nature. This is our home and it needs to be restored.  

All of us, working together can change the world back into the life-sustaining engine that it has been for millions of years. However, to completely transform the Earth, will take people who see the future in a most positive, unselfish, socially concerned, humanitarian manor that does not include greed or aggression. It will take a gargantuan effort of all people believing and practicing a new way of thinking. Peaceful protests are a democratic beginning for changing our world.

Unwittingly, the superrich or 1% are also vulnerable to their greed. The foods they eat comes from the same sources we all count on. Caviar, wine and fancy named foods are all grown in the earth or come from the same polluted oceans. They breathe the same air and consume the same water.

We are not here to exploit. When we do, we produce outcomes that destroy the things we count on for life to happen. We jeopardize our own existence. Besides, food, water, healthcare and shelter, the most critical issues we have are war and the environment.

If we do not become peaceful caretakers of the entire world, we will all succumb to our own ignorance.

If we do become the impetus for change, I can foresee a planet where all of us can photograph the Earth's wonder and beauty in good conscience. But that will only occur if we all vow to make it happen.

Yes! This is about photography!

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 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. - Carl Sagan

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." - Ralph Nader

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." - Albert Einstein

“A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”- Edward Abbey

”I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”- Thomas Jefferson 

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” - Edmund Burke

"As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it." - Dalai Lama

"The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster." Barack Obama

“Think for yourself, question authority.”- Timothy Leary

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”- Plato

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” - Oscar Wilde