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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." -- William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990 "Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." -- Henrik Tikkanen "I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior." -- Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990 "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?" -- Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985 "Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we." -- Michel de Montaigne "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." -- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." -- Native American Proverb "They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers." -- James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982 "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 earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future." -- Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958 "Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress." -- John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957 "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 "For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." -- Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990 "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 "I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn." -- Author Unknown "When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves." -- David Orr