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James Lovelock

"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."

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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."

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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."

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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."

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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

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"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now."
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"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."
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"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."
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"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."
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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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"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
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"For each of our actions there are only consequences."
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"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average."
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"I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty."
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