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  • #1
    David Suzuki
    “We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
    David Suzuki

  • #2
    Groucho Marx
    “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

  • #3
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #5
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #6
    Dan    Brown
    “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

  • #7
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “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

  • #8
    Will Durant
    “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
    Will Durant

  • #9
    W.H. Auden
    “Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #10
    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    “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

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Henry David Thoreau
    “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
    Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

  • #13
    Ansel Adams
    “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #14
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “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

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”
    Albert Einstein

  • #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



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