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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Environment

"Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Environment

"Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Environment

"Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one."

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Gina McCarthy Environmentalist
Environment

"Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Environment

"Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment."

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John Cage Composer, Musician
Environment

"For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
Environment

"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
Environment

"One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in."

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Hoodie Allen Rapper
Environment

"I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time."

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Bob Brown Politician
Environment

"The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?"

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