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It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Arrogance, Convenience, Men, Nature, Neanderthal, Philosophy
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Reality, Long, Focus, Clearly, Lasts

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

Initiates, Irrecoverable, Men, Nature, Sea, Support

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Inspirational, Motivational, War, Part, Man

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Causes, Conservation, Environmental, Rivers, Say, Work

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Assurance, Inspirational, Nature, Night, Time
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