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• A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.

  Michael O'Leary

  Lying, Warrior, Talking

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.

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• I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Mind, Pessimist

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• We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Long, Atmosphere

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• Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

  Wallace Carothers

  Mother, Earth, Population

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• This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

  Plato

  Nature, Soul, World

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• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  William H. Whyte

  Tree, Citizens, Next

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• At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Healing, Home

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.43, Counterpoint Press

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• There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.

  Peter Garrett

  Jobs, Technology, Challenges

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• The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Cities, Long

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• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  Peter Garrett

  Impact, Long, Effort

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• Eating is a political act.

  Michael Pollan

  Political, Eating

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• Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Roots, Generosity, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

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• The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

  Aldo Leopold

  Song, Rivers, Long

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.184, Library of America

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• The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Beautiful, Death, Country

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

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• I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  David Trubridge

  People, Design, Who Cares

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Exercise, Men

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

  Richard Lamm

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

  Toby Hemenway

  Agriculture, People, Process

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• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

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• Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

  Otto Scharmer

  Moving, Ego, Our Society

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• Our expertise is solar energy and we don't want to focus on other forms and we never push for solar form everywhere like say in upper hill areas where eco-hydro or biogas is more viable.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Focus, Energy, Want

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Library, Owners

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• You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mother, Abortion, Trying

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