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Gale Norton

"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."

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Vera Miles

"Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water."

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Vera Miles

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."

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Vera Miles

"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."

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Vera Miles

"In the wrong environment your weakness is evident, but in the right environment, you function from a place of strength."

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Vera Miles

"Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial."

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"It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill."

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Vera Miles

"Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."

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Vera Miles

"He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow."

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"Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful."

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"We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes."

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Gale Norton
"Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time."

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Gale Norton
"In Washington, there's always an effort to label people."

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Gale Norton
"What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation."

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Gale Norton
"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment."

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Gale Norton
"My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule."

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Gale Norton
"I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control."

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Gale Norton
"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."

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Gale Norton
"I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment."

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Gale Norton
"Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock."

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Gale Norton
"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"

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