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"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."

David R. Brower on Environmental

More quotes about Environmental

  • "The environment is everything that isn't me."

    Albert Einstein on Environmental

  • "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

    Margaret Mead on Environmental

  • "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

    John Muir on Environmental

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

    Henry David Thoreau on Environmental

  • "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

    John Muir on Environmental

More quotes by David R. Brower

  • "All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."

  • "There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"

  • "It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

  • "The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

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