"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."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

People, Responsibility, Sun

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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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"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."

Work, First, Machines

"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."

May, Moon, Now, Ocean

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

Work, Agriculture, Diversity, First

"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."

People, Responsibility, Sun

"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

Power, People

"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?"

Land, Scientists, Waste, Will

"Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million."

Vote,

"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."

Earth, Space, Sun, Waste

"'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad."

Word,

"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

Future, Killing, Now, Order

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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