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"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
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"The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."
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"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)."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"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."
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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
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"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
Population
"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
Chance
"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
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"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
Environment
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
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"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
Environment
"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
Difference
"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
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"What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now."
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