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I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.Collection: Environmental
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.Collection: Environmental
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.Collection: Environmental
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.Collection: Environmental
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.Collection: Environmental
Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!Collection: Environmental
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.Collection: Environmental
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.Collection: Environmental
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.Collection: Environmental
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.Collection: Environmental
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.Collection: Environmental
If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.Collection: Environmental
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.Collection: Environmental
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.Collection: Environmental
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.Collection: 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.Collection: Environmental
Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.Collection: Environmental
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.Collection: Environmental
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.Collection: Environmental