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It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What th

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? – Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy

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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. – Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

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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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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. – Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959

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When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. – David Orr

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