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Quote by Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. – Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.

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

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Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. – Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970

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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi

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