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what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's…

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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part…
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest…
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people…
The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable…
Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded…
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from…
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately,…
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives…

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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October… — Jean Webster
Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits… — Douglas Wilson
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the… — George Jones
Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five… — Sue Halpern
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam… — James Cameron
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. — Norman MacCaig
God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world. — Si Robertson
"Yeah, I finished, it was hard," she said. "Those last five miles. It was like giving birth and then being told to… — Pamela Anderson
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long… — Robert Kiyosaki
You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first… — Robert Herjavec
Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which… — Dave Barry

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