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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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"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."
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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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"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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"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week."
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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
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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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"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."
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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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"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."
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"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."
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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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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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"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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"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means."
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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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"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's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'"
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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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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
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"The European nations take climate change very seriously."
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"The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur."
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"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
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"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
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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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"Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom."
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"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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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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"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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