"Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?"

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

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"Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?"

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"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

Lucretius, Roman Poet

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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

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"Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases."

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"This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me."

Woody Guthrie, American Musician

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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

Herbert Croly, American Author

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"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."

Wendell Johnson, American Psychologist

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"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."

Eddie Perez, American Politician

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"And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay."

George Washington Cable, American Novelist

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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."

Alan Bennett, English Dramatist

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"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

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"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

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"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."

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"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."

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"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."

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"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

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"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."

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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."

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