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“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

People Ifs Real Opportunity Results Millions Tree Economic Activity Rain Destruction Practicals Forests Amazon Disorganized

Author:Roberto Unger

“We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.”

World Long Has Beens Art Facts Results Objects Materials Involved Long Time Destruction Productions Odd Cycles Our World Consumption Rejected Junk Pseudo Flooding Contemporary Art

Author:Arman

“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War

“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.”

People Ifs Giving Earth Pain Literature Results Party Secret Magic Destruction Court Liberation Marvelous Wrath Reproach Lumps Family Friends Disapproval

Author:Michael Chabon

“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Different Hands Results Views Taken Position Red Destruction Should Have Army Campaigns Fighter Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided Red Army

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.”

Humans Art Self Spirit Human Beings Results Creation Particular Destruction Divided Restraint Self Destruction Self Restraint

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.”

Knows Humans Earth Values Results Ignorance Activity Survival Commitment Resources Destruction Greed Humanitarian Threatened Living Things Human Activity Lack Of Respect Destruction Of Nature

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”

War Results Technology Cold Periods Achievement Destruction Thirds Tragedy Cold War Extinction Science And Technology

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.”

Able Results Prove Destruction Conclusion Documents Ambiguity

Author:Alan Kay

“Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.”

Today Past Results Common Generations Ignorance Communication Essentials Destruction Responsible Forgiving Environmental Dialogue Ethical Examination Confrontation Pivotal Environmental Destruction

Author:Dalai Lama