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"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."

Jeremy Rifkin on Environmental

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• "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 Jeremy Rifkin

• "We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate."

• "We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

• "The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms."

• "The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families."

• "Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops."