"Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do…" — Lester R. Brown

"Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not."

— Lester R. Brown

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24 Quotes by Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs…
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe.…
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system…
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will…
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will…
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort…
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and…
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water…
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for…

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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