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Ava DuVernay Film Director
Environment

"As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive."

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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Environment

"Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
Environment

"We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?"

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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
Environment

"Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Environment

"There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Environment

"We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Environment

"The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments."

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