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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us (1951)

Even when the pioneer didn't rape Nature, he divorced her a little too easily: he missed the great lesson that both ecology and medicine teach - that Man's great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

Lewis Mumford

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world—or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective...

Ronald Reagan

Like the meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, we are having a huge impact. In the case of the climate, we are not the dinosaurs, we are the meteorite. Not only are we in danger, we are the danger.

António Guterres

It's common today to explain anything and everything as the result of climate change, but the truth is that earth's climate never rests. It is in constant flux. Every event in history occurred against the background of some climate change. In particular, our planet has experienced numerous cycles of cooling and warming.

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

Václav Klaus

A good building should contribute and interact with the environment and underline human values.

Johan Neerman

The quality of the state of collaboration that exist among organizations that is required to achieve unity of effort by the demands of the environment.

Paul R. Lawrence

Burying nuclear, chemical and solid Israeli waste poses danger to the environment and to people's health.

Mohammad Shtayyeh Mohammad Shtayyeh (2021)

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick On Being a Real Person (1943)

It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise five times as many potatoes per acre as the average in his own state.

Harrington Emerson The twelve principles of efficiency (1912)

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate-change, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

Peter Singer The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

We work really hard to make sure these products are designed the most environmentally friendly manner. They're arsenic free display glass, mercury free displays, BFR free, PBC free and yes, Android free.

Phil Schiller

If you killed the Environment, you kill everything.

Gina Lopez

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Sarah Palin

There are two issues that have been important in this election campaign: people's living conditions is one, and then there is our health and the environment.

Múte Bourup Egede Múte Bourup Egede (2021)

We speak for millions of reasoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed and from stupidity.

Mario Cuomo Democratic National Convention Address (1984)

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