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#1

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

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#2

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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#3

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness

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#4

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

tags: environment, nature, poetry

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#5

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values

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#6

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

tags: earth, environment, environmental-protection, materialism, possessions

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#7

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
― George Carlin

tags: conservation, environment, song-lyrics

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#8

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: ecology, environment, trees

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#9

“People would rather believe than know.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: activism, animals, environment, inspirational

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#10

“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: 2010, 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul, 2010-fifa-world-cup, catastrophe, environment, environmentalism, fatalism, fate, football, global-warming, guilt, impotence, organic-food, paper-recycling, reassurance, recycling, television

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#11

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
― David Suzuki

tags: environment

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#12

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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#13

“The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
― Wangari Maathai

tags: ecological, environmental, environmentalism, generational, selfishness

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#14

“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: bribe, confident, corrupt, corruption, diversity, doctor, elections, environmental, environmentalist, farmer, farming, healthcare, humble, humility, insurance, intelligent, leader, leader-quotes, leadership, leadership-quotes, lobbyist, military, oil, pharma, pharmaceutical, politics, president, presidential, race, racism, sly, strong, teacher, teaching, tycoon, vote, washington, weapons, weapons-dealer, welder, welding

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#15

“Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: environmental

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#16

“The organic and inorganic structures supporting human life are changing. Breathtaking technological developments, coupled with rapid advances in medicine, supported a dramatic explosion in the human population worldwide. Increases in human population placed pressure upon the habitat. Lack of foresight and commercial ogres fused to a consumptive consumer mentality fostered a radical reduction in habitat for other creatures and spawned a predictable environmental crisis. Commercial enterprises nimbly renamed the “environmental crisis” the “energy crisis,” effectively downplaying the dramatic cost inflicted upon the ecosystem in the name of preserving cheap energy sources for Americans. We live on the brink of impending disaster. Nonetheless, we must carry on. It is humankind’s greatest challenge to place our self-gratification in check in order to ensure that our species and other creatures survive the violent onslaught raging against the ecosystem. Despite the rapid expansion of new technology, which alters how human beings live and communicate with each other, the fundamental challenge of humanity remains consistent. Every generation must address how to live a purposeful life, one filled with joy and contentment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: conservation-habitat, consumerism, environment, environmental, environmental-conservation, environmental-protection, environmentalism

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#17

“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: climate-change, enrionmentalism, environment, environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, global-warming, pollution

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#18

“The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.”
― George Monbiot

tags: economy, energy, environment, greed, oil

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#19

“The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: earth, earth-day, earth-day-quotations, earth-day-quotes, earth-quotes, environment, environment-pollution, environmental, environmental-conservation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, pollute, polluted, pollution, pollution-quotations, pollution-quotes, pollutions, turkish-aphorisms, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-sayings, turkish-thinkers, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers

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“The world was a clean place until we polluted it! Now, the world will remain dirty until we clean it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: environment, environment-pollution, environment-quotes, environmental-conservation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, environmentalist, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes

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#21

“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don’t have any other instruction.”
― David Brower

tags: ecology, environmental-conservation

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#22

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#23

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#24

“Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while. Either people challenge each other to the point where they don’t like each other or they become complacent about each other’s feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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#25

“The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer. The Struggle is when your employees think you are lying and you think they may be right. The Struggle is when food loses its taste.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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