Usage
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- Add a new Selected quote to the next available subpage.
- Update "max=" to new total for its ((Random portal component)) on the main page.
Quotes list
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Aristotle
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see
waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
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Mother Teresa
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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Margaret Thatcher
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
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Elizabeth I of England
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Were we and the rest of the back-boned animals to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well.
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David Attenborough
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
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Our Common Future
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I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your
species. I realized that you humans are not actually
mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural
equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply and multiply, until every
natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A
virus. Human beings are a disease, a
cancer of this planet.
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Agent Smith
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Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several "tipping points" that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization.
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Al Gore, giving a speech at NYU Law School in 2006
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With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.
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David Suzuki
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You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time.
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Greta Thunberg
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"The
Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System will provide the platform for our enforcement agencies to collect and share information on the trends and patterns of wildlife crime. Moreover, the cross-border nature of wild life crime underscores the need to enhance cooperation among our governments and to pool financial and human resources. I am confident that these measures will go a long way in enhancing our capacity to protect our wildlife resources."
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Mwai Kibaki
Nominations
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