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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.

If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Every day is Earth Day.

When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

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

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions, which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, its exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.