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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Environmental

"There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Environmental

"It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Environmental

"We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly."

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Bob Walker Artist, Writer
Environmental

"We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self."

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Ali Smith Author
Environmental

"It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental."

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Amy Jo Martin Author, Entrepreneur
Environmental

"We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Environmental

"A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet."

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Stewart Brand Environmentalist, Author
Environmental

"Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster."

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