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• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
• Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
• The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
• There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization…
• Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
• The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it…
• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments…
• Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
• Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
• Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of…
• It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

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