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“Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!”

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Author:Paul Wellstone

“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”

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Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.”

“The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“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

“Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.”

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Author:Norman Cousins

“Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”

Source: The pursuit of wilderness

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

“Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.”

“The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.”

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Author:William H. Stewart

“We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them pose no threat to the world's natural environment...economic development...so that more and more of the world's population can enjoy...the things which the energy industry supplies...(and) a society in which ideas and knowledge move freely.”

“Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.”

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Author:Rene Dubos

“Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.”

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Author:Lillian Russell

“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse”

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Author:David Attenborough

“We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation”

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Author:Tim Benton

“Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes”

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Author:Tim Benton

“From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.”

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Author:Oliver Cromwell

“I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better”

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Author:Monty Don

“Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“Nature did all things well”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Source: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

“Lose yourself in nature and find peace”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance”

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Author:Phil Harding

“One can never study nature too much and too hard”

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Book:Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast”

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Book:The House of Europe

Source: The House of Europe

“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.”

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Author:John Zerzan

“The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas”

“The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly”

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Author:Edward Davey

“As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate”

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Author:Hilary Benn

“Trees are your best antiques”

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Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem”

“No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree”

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Book:Careless Rambles: A Selection of His Poems

Source: Careless Rambles: A Selection of His Poems

“Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it”

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Author:Simon Jenkins