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"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

"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."

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

"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."

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

"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."

"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."

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."

"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."

"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."

"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."

"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."

"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."

"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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