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• Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Thinking, Hair

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• Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Europe, Together We Can, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Problem, Natural, Resources

  "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher-Thompson, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.

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• It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Time, Oil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Believe, People, World

  "Pricing the Future". Wired, web.media.mit.edu. November 1998.

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• Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Sea, Ecosystems, Safety

  "2014 New Year’s Resolution" by Alexandra Cousteau, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2013.

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• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Believe, Race, World

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

  Charles E. Wilson

  People, Canada, Spirit

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• There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, History, Delight

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Ideas, Creating, Use

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• Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

  Achim Steiner

  Growth, Steps, Economic

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• The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Men, Technology

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Defense, Economic, Conservation

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• If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thoughtful, Past, Common Sense

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

  James Lipton

  Language, Protection, Natural

  James Lipton (1991). “An Exaltation of Larks”, Viking Adult

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

  Shimon Peres

  Creativity, Technology, Land

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• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Children, Global Warming, Natural

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• I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Organization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

  Jacque Fresco

  Agreement, People, Survival

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• Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Independent, Rights

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Creative, Energy

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• Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

  Utah Phillips

  Children, America, Done

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• But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Running, Responsibility, Order

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.3, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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