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#1

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
― David Suzuki

tags: environment

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#2

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#3

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#4

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#5

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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#6

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

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#7

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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#8

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
― Will Durant

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#9

“Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.”
― W. H. Auden

tags: geology, mankind

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#10

“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”
― Bal Gangadhar Tilak, The Arctic Home in the Vedas

tags: archaeology, geology, history

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#11

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

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#12

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

tags: earth, environment, environmental-protection, materialism, possessions

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#13

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: climate-action, climate-change, climate-crisi, environment, government, government-climate-policy, saving-the-planet

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#14

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: ecology, environment, trees

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#15

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”
― Albert Einstein

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#16

“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
― Moss Cass

tags: conservation, earth, environmentalism, inspirational, science

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