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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will…
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed…
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At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a…
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in…
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they…
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or…
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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of…
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we…
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we…
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival…
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
— David R. Brower
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Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
— Gary Snyder
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of…
— Unknown Author
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…
— Thomas Berry
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In wildness is the salvation of the world,
— Aldo Leopold
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Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
— Gary Snyder
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from…
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