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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.


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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.



All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent



Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.



Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.



Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.



Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.



We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.



Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.



Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.



Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.





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Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?



As long as you are alive and in good health, everything else will come with time through hard work.

As long as you are alive and in good health, everything else will come with time through hard work.



Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate



By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.



We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.



The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.



Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.



Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!

Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!



I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.




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