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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isnt long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws weve got in this country. – Jared Diamond

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history. – Jared Diamond

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environmental
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Jared Diamond
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. – Jared Diamond

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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the worlds goods must steadily decrease. – Garrett Hardin

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environmental

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. – Jay Inslee

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environmental

We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. – Aldo Leopold

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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. – Anthony Trollope

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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! – Hal Sparks

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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. – Joseph Joubert

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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

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