"Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we……" — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
• All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve -… — David Attenborough
• All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
• If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
• It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
• I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood… — Joe Barton
• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To… — Wendell Berry
• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

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