Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. ~Gil Stern
When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! ~Grey Livingston
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980.
The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine.
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Pero
Each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. ~Paul Gillmor
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~ Greek Proverb
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ~Buddha
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