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    Pete Seeger
    “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
    ― Pete Seeger
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    “Live dirtier, eat cleaner”
    ― Robynne Chutkan, The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out
    tags: clean, eat-clean, gut-health, health, healthy-quote
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    Jane Goodall
    “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: caring, chimpanzees, chimps, conservation, consideration, great-apes, help, human-rights, kindness, nature, saved, science, treat, understanding
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    Jane Goodall
    “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
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    Jane Goodall
    “Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
    ― Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
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    David Attenborough
    “The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
    ― Sir David Attenborough
    tags: conservation, environment, nature, science
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    David Attenborough
    “We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.”
    ― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
    tags: conservationism
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
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    David Brower
    “We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
    ― David Brower
    tags: earth, environmentalism, legacy
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    Bill Maher
    “You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: deepwater-horizon-oil-spill, environmental-disaster, environmentalism, humour, renewable-energy
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    “Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: dove, doves, enemies, enemy, greet, greeting, hate, hatred, love, olive-tree, peace, peacekeeper, peacemaker, suzy-kassem
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Edward Abbey
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Edward Abbey
    “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: anarchism, anarchy, democracy, politics
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    Jarod Kintz
    “My subconscious is like the ocean, only deeper and less polluted.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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    Svetlana Alexievich
    “Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There’s nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.”
    ― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
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    David Brower
    “The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”
    ― David Brower
    tags: nature
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    David Brower
    “We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.”
    ― David Brower
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    Billy Wilder
    “A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
    ― Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder in Hollywood
    tags: art, director, film
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    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Bob Marley
    “Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: peace, soul, wealth, wisdom
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god-religion-happiness
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    Amit Ray
    “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
    ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
    tags: attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life, meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit, spirituality, wisdom
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    Abdu'l-Bahá
    “Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.”
    ― Abdu'l-Bahá
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