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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the

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 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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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. – Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

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The command “Be fruitful and multiply” was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people. – William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, 1931

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. – Harry Crews

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We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

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Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual? – Trisha Goddard

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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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