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Quotes by Environmentalist
"Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it."
66
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
65
"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."
65
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
65
"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."
65
"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
65
"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."
64
"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."
63
"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."
62
"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."
62
"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president."
61
"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."
61
"In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love."
61
"Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent."
60
"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."
60
"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy."
60
"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
60
"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,
60
"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?"
60
"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
60
"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."
59
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
59
"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."
59
"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."
59
"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."
59
"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
59
"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."
58
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
58
"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."
58
"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
58
"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
58
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
58
"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."
57
"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."
57
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
57
"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."
56
"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."
56
"It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border."
56
"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."
55
"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest."
55
"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe."
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