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“But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”

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Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.”

“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.”

“Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?”

Doe Poet Products Behavior Environmental Initiate Environmental History

Book:Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition

Source: Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition

“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.”

“Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's body before the 1920s... We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity... Everyone is exposed.”

Men Made Body Today Brain Development Behavior Sitting Environmental Your Body Chemicals Exposed Pollution Globes Immune

Author:Theo Colborn

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier

“The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior."”

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Author:Dale Jamieson

“A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.”

Choices Growth Accepting Economic Behavior Ethics Environmental Population Economic Growth

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.”

Ifs Humans Form Existence Responsibility Planets Behavior Species Environmental Threatened Our Planet There Is No God Human Species Environmental Responsibility

Author:Jane Goodall

“The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.”

People Inspirational Self Action Individual Attitude Principles Influence Circumstances Limits Behavior Environmental Knowledgeable Personal Power Proactive Environmental Influences

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook