Queen Elizabeth I  - Quotes

 The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. 

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Bill Maher  - Quotes

 You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. 

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Al Gore  - Quotes

 The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. 

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Ayn Rand  - Quotes

 Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. 

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Rachel Carson  - Quotes

 Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.  

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Chuck Palahniuk  - Quotes

 Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. 

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James Taranto  - Quotes

 The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way 

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Jean Rostand  - Quotes

 The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. 

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Naomi Klein  - Quotes

 Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less' 

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Ace Frehley  - Quotes

 I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. 

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Richard Adams  - Quotes

 There's terrible evil in the world. 

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Edward O. Wilson  - Quotes

 One planet, one experiment. 

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Milton Friedman  - Quotes

 Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend. 

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Lois Lenski  - Quotes

 A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper. 

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Lois Lenski  - Quotes

 A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. 

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Henry David Thoreau  - Quotes

 He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. 

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Edward O. Wilson  - Quotes

 Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. 

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