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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln to Congress in 1862, via Sir Ken Robinson at TED 2010. I love that these words speak to so many contemporary issues: social, political, and most especially environmental.