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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. – Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

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The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. – Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967

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We are the environment. – Charles Panati

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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die. – Gil Stern

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