Nina Beth Cardin Quotes

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If I find I'm parking in the same spot day after day at work, then I know it's time to move on.

Nina Beth Cardin
When there's an emerging social issue that needs greater attention by the Jewish community, that's where I am.

Nina Beth Cardin
No lone human, no lone civilization — not even all of us together — can claim to have created, built or even imagined the Earth. We were gifted it and all that is upon and within it. It came from forces far beyond ourselves and from those who used it and preserved it before us.

Nina Beth Cardin
You can call it having professional ADD, but I've always been attracted to the edge of things, to broadening Jewish education beyond the classical structures. I truly believe that as fewer and fewer Jews are joining synagogues, rabbis need to get out beyond the traditional walls of Jewish institutions.

Nina Beth Cardin
History, we know now, is determined not only by what humans do to humans, but also by what humans do to — and with — the Earth. With such power, we must think deeply about the short- and long-term impact of our actions.

Nina Beth Cardin
The Earth and all its blessings belong to all of us. It belongs to the poor as well as the rich, those alive today as well as those yet to be.

Nina Beth Cardin
Land — and what we do on it, with it and, to it — affects all of life. Humans have become so numerous and our footprint so large, that the water, air and all living creatures are affected by our behavior. We can alter worlds.

Nina Beth Cardin
In 2006, the organized Jewish community hadn't engaged in sustainability as deeply as it should have. On the other hand, I saw that so many leaders in the general environmental movement were Jewish. I thought, 'Wait, we've got to put this together.'.

Nina Beth Cardin
While the Earth can reclaim and reuse its water, matter, air and soil, it cannot make them from scratch. We must wrap our large appetites and curiosity around the contours and life-giving systems of this world.

Nina Beth Cardin