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Quotes by Environmentalist
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
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"Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies."
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"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."
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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
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"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
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"Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence."
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"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men."
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"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality."
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"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."
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"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."
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"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."
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"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."
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"The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead."
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"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."
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"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."
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"A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see."
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"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water."
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"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
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"The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated."
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