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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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"When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet."
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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
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"Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."
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"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."
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"It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow " when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future " will be too late."
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"The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature."
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"We need to consciously remember that we have more responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live."
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"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
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"It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding."
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"As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status."
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"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
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"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."
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"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
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"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
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"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production."
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"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration."
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