All Quotes By Tag: Environmental-conservation
“I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.”
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“Environment isn’t asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.”
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we’re pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though…”
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“Joyfully we undertake our daily work.”
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“We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.”
“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief –like a whisper of wind–when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.”
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