A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. – Orison Swett Marden

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Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? – Lane Olinghouse

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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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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Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. – Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970

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