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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
Category: Environment Author: Ernest Jones
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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Category: Environment Author: Chief Luther Standing Bear
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Category: Environment Author: Loudon Wainwright
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Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
Category: Environment Author: Lane Olinghouse
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Category: Environment Author: Luther Burbank
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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
Category: Environment Author: William Rathje
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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Category: Environment Author: Stephanie Mills
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How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
Category: Environment Author: Anonymous Wintu Woman
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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Category: Environment Author: Dave Foreman
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Category: Environment Author: Carl Sagan
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Category: Environment Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
Category: Environment Author: Edward Young
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
Category: Environment Author: Rachel Carson
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God never made his work for man to mend.
Category: Environment Author: John Dryden
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It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here?
Category: Environment Author: Denton Morrison
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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Category: Environment Author: Gil Stern
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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
Category: Environment Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
Category: Environment Author: David Ehrenfeld
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The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.
Category: Environment Author: Irving Babbitt
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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.
Category: Environment Author: Horace Source: Odes
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