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I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many ar

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. – Author Unknown

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One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. – Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National La

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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. – Ian McHarg

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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