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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."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
"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."
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
"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."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"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."
"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."
"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."
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"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."
"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"
"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."
"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."
"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."
"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."
"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."
"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."
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