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"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."
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"In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles."
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"The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire."
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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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"There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world."
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"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."
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"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
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"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
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"In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school."
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"We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."
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"Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life."
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"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
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"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."
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"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
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"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago."
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"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."
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