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Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million…
— Charles Kuralt
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that…
— John F. Kerry
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I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
— Margaret Smith
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The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering…
— Chris Hadfield
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A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And…
— Travis Tritt
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This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every…
— Jeri Ryan
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Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.
— Unknown Author
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Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs…
— Jimmy Fallon
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Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character,…
— Derek Luke
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I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan…
— Bo Gritz
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