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We cant blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesnt put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them its dirty and dangerous. – David Suzuki

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For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. – David Suzuki

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Health
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Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. – David Suzuki

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Health
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. – David Suzuki

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Change
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. – Xun Zi

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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isnt apparent because its shrouded by sensation and delusion. – Bodhidharma

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Nature

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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