Environmentalism

Don't waste the Earth - It is our Jewel!

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The one factor that you can’t find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

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All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

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Were we and the rest of the back-boned animals to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well.

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Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

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I want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

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We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

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I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

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The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system

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Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

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The Supreme Reality of Our Time is...the Vulnerability of our Planet

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The creator is angry. Everyone is going to be sorry for what they have done. A day of reckoning is coming. And it's going to be for everyone on the planet. It will make no distinction for religion or creed. Something is going to happen.

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

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The Environmental movement is, you might say, a movement of repressed Romantics.

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Our environment can best be preserved and enhanced by better protection of property rights in a free-market economy.China and the old Soviet bloc proved that point once and for all.

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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

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Even when the pioneer didn't rape Nature, he divorced her a little too easily: he missed the great lesson that both ecology and medicine teach - that Man's great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

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We do not have to adapt to the environment. We will change the environment to suit us.

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Think globally. Act neighborly.

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We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective...

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The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

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The Materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

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Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world—or to make it the last.

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The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

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