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"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."
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"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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"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."
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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."
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"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
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"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
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"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."
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"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."
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"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."
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"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
Environment
"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
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"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
Friendship
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
Leadership
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
Achievement
"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
Money
"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."
Vision
"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
Mind
"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
Government
"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
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