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“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.”

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

“We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

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“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

“The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.”

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Author:Paul Hawken

“Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II