GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ON THE ENVIRONMENT - WHY NOT ?

 

 

I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

 

 

George Bernard Shaw  (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

In a letter to Henry James dated 17 January 1909, Shaw said:

"I, as a Socialist, have had to preach, as much as anyone, the enormous power of the environment. We can change it; we must change it; there is absolutely no other sense in life than the task of changing it. What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods."

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.  Candida Act I (1898)

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