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Al Gore
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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Albert Einstein, 1950
A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.
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Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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.
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Anonymous Wintu Woman
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
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Ansel Adams
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897
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.
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Arnold Toynbee
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.
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Art Buchwald, 1970
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate.
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Author Unknown
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.
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Author Unknown
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
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Author Unknown
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
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