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"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."

"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."

"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."
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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."

"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now."

"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."

"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."
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