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Environment
- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It't the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." George W. Bush
- "Right now the environment movement is a perfect bogyman for us. In order to get people to join and donate money [to us] we need opposition." Alan Gottlieb, Centre for the Defence of Free Enterprise.
- "It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little." - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
- "The supreme reality of our time is ...the vulnerability of our planet." - John F. Kennedy
- "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
- "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
- "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb
- "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."
- "Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind." - David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
- "The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers: a demographic explosion that triggers social chaos and spreads death, nuclear delirium and the quasi-annihilation of the species… Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years." - Jacques Cousteau
- "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." — Jacques Cousteau
- "This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." - Arthur C. Clarke
- "Strict economy in the use of natural resources has not been practiced, but it must be henceforth unless we are immoral enough to impair conditions in which our children are to live" - Daniel Burnham
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