"What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences."
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"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."
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"Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself."
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"For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal."
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"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
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"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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"The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet."
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"We must return to nature and nature's god."
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"Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw."
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"I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust."
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"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
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"Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change."
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"We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one."
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"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"
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"Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind."
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"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."
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"There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years."
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"May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland."
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"If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment."
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"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
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