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“We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon have to admit that those people, like the millions of indigenous people fighting to prevent the takeover of their lands and the destruction of their environment - the people who still know the secrets of sustainable living - are not relics of the past, but the guides to our future.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy
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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan
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“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”

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Author:Robert Redford
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“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

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Book:1976: Agenda for Tomorrow
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“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

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Author:Wendell Berry
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“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
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“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

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Author:Edmund Burke
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“Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”

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Author:Carl Sagan
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“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

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Author:Standing Bear
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“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison
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“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison
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“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.”

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Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle
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“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
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“It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

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Author:Albert Einstein
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