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Quotes by Environmentalist
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."
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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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"Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production."
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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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"The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger."
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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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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
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"There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium."
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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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"Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos."
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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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"A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate."
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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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"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."
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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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"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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"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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"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
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"The European nations take climate change very seriously."
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"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means."
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"Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes."
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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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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
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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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"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."
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"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
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"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
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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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"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."
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"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."
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"If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose."
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"The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown."
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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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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."
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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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