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The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
Category: Environment Author: David Wann
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So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
Category: Environment Author: Philip Shabecoff
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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
Category: Environment Author: John Clapham
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And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess."
Category: Environment Author: Art Buchwald
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The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
Category: Environment Author: Paul A Samuelson
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Category: Environment Author: Bill Vaughn
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For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.
Category: Environment Author: Tom McMillan
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Category: Environment Author: Jacques Barzun
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Category: Environment Author: Elwyn Brooks White
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Category: Environment Author: Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Category: Environment Author: Pliny the Elder
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A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining.
Category: Environment Author: David Brin
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Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel."
Category: Environment Source: The Washington Post
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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Category: Environment Author: Dennis Gabor
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When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.
Category: Environment Author: John Drinkwater
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A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.
Category: Environment Author: Author Unknown
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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Category: Environment Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
Category: Environment Author: Author Unknown
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When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
Category: Environment Author: David Orr
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Category: Environment Author: Francis Bacon
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