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Trade is neither inherently good nor bad but how it is conducted is a matter of great concern and an unprecedented opportunity. Trade can either contribute to the process of sustainable development or undermine it. There is no question what the choice must be.

Helen French

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

Changing Times magazine

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

Norbert Wiener

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Ayn Rand

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

Marshall McLuhan

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Robert Redford

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Edward O. Wilson

Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.

Catherine Pulsifer

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

Dave Foreman

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. It's about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I won't give up this fight.

Senator John Kerry

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Morris K. Udall

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Edward Abbey

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

Al Gore

A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

Eugene M. Poirot

Al Gore

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

Norm Dicks

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

Dave Foreman

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Robert Redford

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Janet Holmes

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Julian Huxley

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Loudon Wainwright

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Richard Bach

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

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