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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

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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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Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. – Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977

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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. – John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

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