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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.”

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Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”

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Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

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Author:Woody Allen