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“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.”— John Muir
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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”— Ansel Adams
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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”— John Muir
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“The environment is everything that isn't me.”— Albert Einstein
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“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”— John Muir
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“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”— Marshall McLuhan
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”— Bill Nye
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”— John Muir
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“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”— Aeschylus
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“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”— Ronald Reagan
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“Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.”— Christopher Alexander
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“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.”— John Sununu
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“But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.”— John Anderson
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“To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.”— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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“From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.”— David Suzuki
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“Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.”— Adam Schiff
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“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”— John Portman
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“I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.”— William Hague
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“When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.”— Simon Mainwaring
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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”— Joseph Wood Krutch
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“By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.”— Dan Lipinski
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“All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.”— Paul Hawken
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“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”— Margaret Mead
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“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.”— Barry Commoner