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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. – Albert Schweitzer, quoted in James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot

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The human race will be the cancer of the planet. – Julian Huxley, attributed

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Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. – Rene Dubos, Medical Utopias, 1961

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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. – Edward O. Wilson

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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. – Anon.

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. – Noam Chomsky

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought. – Ernest Holmes, “Health Is Normal”

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