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Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
Category: Environment Author: Rene Dubos
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In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Category: Environment Author: Richard Wilkinson
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Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
Category: Environment Author: Don A Dillman
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We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Category: Environment Author: Arnold Toynbee
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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Category: Environment Author: Rene Dubos
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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
Category: Environment Author: Edwin Way Teale
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Waste is a tax on the whole people.
Category: Environment Author: Albert W Atwood
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Category: Environment Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Category: Environment Source: Chinese Proverb
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Category: Environment Author: Jean Arp
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Category: Environment Author: Anton Chekhov
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole [of] nature in its beauty.
Category: Environment Author: Albert Einstein
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A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.
Category: Environment Author: Eugene M Poirot
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Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.
Category: Environment Author: Russell E Train
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."
Category: Environment Author: U Thant
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Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Category: Environment Source: Genesis
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The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.
Category: Environment Author: William Ralph Inge
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Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment.
Category: Environment Author: Donald G Kaufman
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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.
Category: Environment Author: Rachel Carson
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I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.
Category: Environment Author: William O Douglas
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