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Harri Holkeri

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Harri Holkeri
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."

Decision-Making

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Harri Holkeri
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."

Philosophy

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Harri Holkeri
"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

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Harri Holkeri
"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."

Environment

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Harri Holkeri
"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."

Education

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Harri Holkeri
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."

Change

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Harri Holkeri
"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

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Harri Holkeri
"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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Harri Holkeri
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."

Decision-Making

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Harri Holkeri
"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

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