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The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with…
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As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some…
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we…
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The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks…
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The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
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There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower…
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's…
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Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency,…
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There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural…
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a…
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We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the…
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the…
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
— Saint Augustine
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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in…
— Aeschylus
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and…
— James Buchan
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
— Herman Bavinck
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Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut),…
— Florence Nightingale
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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…
— Lester R. Brown
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Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent…
— David Suzuki
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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air…
— Alanis Obomsawin
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many…
— Renzo Piano
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always…
— Andre Breton
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