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• It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

  Dennis Banks

  Mother, Healing, People

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

  Henry Fairlie

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

  "Paralysis in a Risk-Free Society" by Henry Fairlie, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 1979.

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

  George Porter

  War, Successful, Green World

  The Observer, August 26, 1973.

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• I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Mother, Rocks, People

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

  Luther Burbank

  Law, Judging, Environmental

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• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

  Hans Arp

  Anxiety, Ego, Noise

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Two, Religion, Population

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• The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

  Ernest Jones

  Men, Society, Outrun

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• When we walk upon Mother Earth,
  we always plant our feet carefully
  because we know the faces of our future generations
  are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
  we never forget them.

  Oren Lyons

  Mother, Feet, Faces

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• One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Kings, Air, Law

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• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Civilization, Environment

  Letter to J.B. McChesney, September 19, 1871.

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• 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.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Business, Healing

  "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.

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• The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Son, Men

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

  Jonathan Raban

  Country, Nature, Air

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Experience, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Morning, Long, Ignorant

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Water flows uphill towards money.

  Marc Reisner

  Water, Flow, Eco

  Marc Reisner (1993). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition”, p.25, Penguin

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• Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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• The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

  Paul Samuelson

  Hands, Survival, Elbows

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1973). “The Samuelson sampler”

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• I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Men

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• The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Inspirational, Cancer, Race

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• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

  Horace

  Environment, Force, Refinement

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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