“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.”
— Wangari Maathai
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Category: environmental
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“Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life.”
— Roger Tory Peterson
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Category: environmental
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“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.”
— Aldo Leopold
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“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”
— Katherine Dunn
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Category: environmental
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“Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.”
— Peter DeFazio
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Category: environmental
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“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”
— James Lovelock
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Category: environmental
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“People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.”
— Robert Collier
Author: Robert Collier
Category: environmental
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“Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.”
— Matt Gonzalez
Author: Matt Gonzalez
Category: environmental
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“Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.”
— Anna Lindh
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“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”
— Richard Rogers
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“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”
— David Frum
Author: David Frum
Category: environmental
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