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“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.”

Country Energy Keys Benefits Performances Independence Environmental Our Country Fuel Components Ethanol Energy Independence

Author:Richard Lugar

“If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.”

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Author:John S. Watson

“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.”

Doe Real Country Water Cities Produce Industry Trade Threat Environmental Invisible Borders Grain Scarce Scarcity Imports Irrigation National Borders Aquifers

Author:Lester R. Brown

“Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.”

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Author:Gaylord Nelson

“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.”

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Author:Mollie Beattie

“In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.”

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Author:Frank Church

“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.”

May Country Whole Seems Together Easy Fire Sky Safe Summer Lows Destruction Environmental Woods Destroyed Our Country Smoke Landscape Doomed Boundless

Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”