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The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an ...

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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibriu...

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I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

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Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our sp...

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Bill McKibbenWandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing ...

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Carl SaganBillions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX f...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you...

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There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. O...

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I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...

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Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the sourc...

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The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

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There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go ...

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

A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal...

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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet...

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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h...

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incap...

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They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...

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One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature...

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We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

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Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the ...

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Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conc...

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There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destructio...

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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or ...

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We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell f...

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[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

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This book was written using 100% recycled words.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the ...

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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ...

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Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a ...

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In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

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Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of t...

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Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There