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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
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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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"It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears."
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"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."
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"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
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"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."
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"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."
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"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."
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"We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh."
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"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."
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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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"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
Environment
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
Time
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
Creativity
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."
Time
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
Death
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
Peace
"African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence."
Strength
"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."
Development
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
Environment
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