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Quote by Arnold Toynbee
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated

We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey

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How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?… Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. – Anonymous Wintu Woman

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