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When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.
CHARLES LINDBERGH, The Wartime Journals
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE, forward, Collected Stories
I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.
EILEEN CLAUSSEN, speech, July 17, 2002
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, letter to state governors, Feb. 26, 1937
All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Apr. 3, 2006
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease.
ANDY & LARRY WACHOWSKI, The Matrix
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
GERMAINE GREER, Sex and Destiny
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
OSCAR WILDE, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
DENNIS KUCINICH, speech, Sep. 27, 2005
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
QUENTIN CRISP, The Naked Civil Servant
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier.
ANTON CHEKHOV, Uncle Vanya
The environment is the infrastructure of our communities. As a nation, as a civilization, it's our obligation to create communities for our children that provide them with opportunities for dignity and good health. When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children. We ignore that at our own peril.
BOBBY KENNEDY, O Magazine, Feb. 2007
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you.
W. CLEMENT STONE, Paul Parsons' The Back Pain Chronicles
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