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Quotes by Environmentalist
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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"Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it."
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"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers."
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"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."
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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
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"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."
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"What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign."
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"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
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"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
Cats,
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"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."
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"First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds."
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"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."
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"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president."
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"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
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"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
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"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."
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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
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"Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent."
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"At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now."
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"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."
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"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy."
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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
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"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."
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"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
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"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
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"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."
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"I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest."
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"In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love."
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"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."
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"It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being."
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"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."
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"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."
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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
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"The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature."
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"Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom."
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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
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"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."
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"Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future."
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