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Gaylord Nelson

"All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it."

Source : Gaylord Nelson, Susan M. Campbell, Paul A. Wozniak (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.18, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Gaylord Nelson

#Air Quotes #Water Quotes #Soil Quotes

“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.”

Source : "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.
“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
“No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.”
“Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?”
“A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.”
“We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.”
“I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I canâ€™t play anything. I donâ€™t know what it is.”
“When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.”

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