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Carl Andre

"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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Amber Hurdle

"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why we don't feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late."

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Amber Hurdle

"Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside."

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Amber Hurdle

"The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any."

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"The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Clean communities, crystal clear coastal waters."

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Amber Hurdle

"I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes."

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"If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty, justice, democracy, and brotherhood, and to free the world from communism. We must, I think, be prepared to see, and to stand by, the truth: that the land should not be destroyed for any reason, not even for any apparently good reason. We must be prepared to say that enough food, year after year, is possible only for a limited number of peaople, and that this possibility can be preserved only by the steadfast, knowledgeable care of those people."

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Amber Hurdle

"The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places."

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Amber Hurdle

"Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment."

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"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
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"It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment."
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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
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"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
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"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
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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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