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"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
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"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger."
"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."
"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."
"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
"At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now."
"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."
"Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?"
"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."
"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."
"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
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