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Quotes by Environmentalist
"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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"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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"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
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"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
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"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."
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"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
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"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."
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"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."
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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."
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"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."
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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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"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."
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"A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see."
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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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