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Environmentalist Inspirational Quotes (8146)

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I'm just a socialist at heart.
Ted Turner
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Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.
Starhawk
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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
Henry David Thoreau
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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
David R. Brower
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Henry David Thoreau
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The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.
Pierce Brosnan
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There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.
Van Jones
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Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
Farley Mowat
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Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
Henry David Thoreau
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I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
Robert Redford
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Actors are very generous.
Blythe Danner
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Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.
Jimmy Carter
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There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late if we act as individuals, it'll be too little but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
Rob Hopkins
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Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed it is itself a reform.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
Henry David Thoreau
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Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
Rebecca Solnit
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
Van Jones
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[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
Ralph Nader
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I would like to make a film to tell children it's good to be alive.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
Rene Dubos
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Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca Solnit
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
Andy Goldsworthy
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