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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Category: Environment Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Category: Environment Author: Havelock Ellis
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Category: Environment Author: Mohandas K Gandhi
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Category: Environment Author: Robert Orben
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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
Category: Environment Author: Paul Brooks
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Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.
Category: Environment Source: Time
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Category: Environment Author: Henrik Tikkanen
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I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
Category: Environment Author: Darryl Cherney
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Category: Environment Author: Robert Redford
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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Category: Environment Author: Michel de Montaigne
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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Category: Environment Author: Thomas Fuller
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Category: Environment Source: Native American Proverb
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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Category: Environment Author: Marshall McLuhan
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Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
Category: Environment Source: Horizon
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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
Category: Environment Author: James G Watt
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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
Category: Environment Author: Sir George Porter
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Category: Environment Author: Ralph Nader
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Category: Environment Author: Aldo Leopold
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Category: Environment Author: Marya Mannes
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I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.
Category: Environment Author: Ymber Delecto
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