Quotes that inspire me

"We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly."

~  Anne Marie Bonneau

"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

~ Sylvia Plath

"Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again."

~ Yvon Chouinard

"There is no such thing as 'away'. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere."

~ Annie Leonard