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“Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.”

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Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the…

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When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is…

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The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born!…

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Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

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Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not…

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When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the…

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We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

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We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear…

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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine,…

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If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If…

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All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

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We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings…

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To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always…

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Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .…

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“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what--these are the thousand and one…

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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

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“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

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I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the…

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Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…

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“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.”

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought…

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