Rachel Carson
Biologist, Conservationist, Author
"Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished."
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Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur."
Brooks Stevens
Industrial designer
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
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"It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
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"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago."
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"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
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"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
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"Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever."
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"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."
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"Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides."
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by."
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"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
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"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."
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"Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price"
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"Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death."
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"In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own."
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"There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more."
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"People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional."
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"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
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"There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful."
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"What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either."
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