Americans Who Tell the Truth

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“I’m helping to create an economic system that will respect and protect the Earth — one which would replace corporate globalization with a global network of local living economies. Business is beautiful when it’s a vehicle for serving the common good.”
Judy Wicks Activist, Businessperson, 1947-

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it … So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
John Muir Conservationist, Naturalist, Explorer, 1838-1914

“What we are all calling for is a revolution in public education ... When the hearts and minds of our children are captured by a school lunch curriculum, enriched with the experience in the garden, sustainability will become the lens through which they see the world.”
Alice Waters Chef, Author, Community Activist, 1944-

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. A deep democracy … holds up for future generations the principle that the pursuit of justice is the condition for the pursuit of happiness.”
Ralph Nader Public Citizen, 1934-

“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.”
Terry Tempest Williams Naturalist, Writer, Environmental Activist, 1955-

“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.”
Wendell Berry Farmer, Essayist, Conservationist, Novelist, Teacher, Poet, 1934-

“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We’re the first people on our planet to have real choice: We can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the Earth. So we do have a choice.
We can choose death; or we can choose life.”
Frances Moore Lappé  Writer, Activist, 1944-

“In southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. [Coal mining companies are using] 3.5 million pounds of explosives … every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don’t mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.”
Judy Bonds Social Justice Activist for Coal River Mountain Watch, 1952-

You can view all 114 of Robert Shetterly’s remarkable portraits here. A book, note cards and free curriculum also are available, as well as the schedule of a traveling exhibit.

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