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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."
"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."
"However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day."
"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."
"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."
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