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"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."
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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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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
Education
"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."
Change
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
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"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
Decision-Making
"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
Politics
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
Truth
"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."
Life
"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind."
History
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
Work
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