We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on… — Aaron Peirsol Copy Share Image
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
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