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May. 6, 2011—“Man’s struggle with Nature is increasingly a struggle with his society.” – Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man, 1964
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Apr. 27, 2011—“All education is environmental education. By what is included or excluded, students are taught that they are part of or apart from the natural world” – David Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 2004
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Apr. 27, 2011—“a land ethic changes the role of homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.” – Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac, 1948
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Apr. 27, 2011—“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.” – George Washington Carver, How to Search for Truth,1930
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Apr. 26, 2011—“Overcoming human alienation from nature requires a re-enchantment with the natural world, making it again a place of wonder…” – James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World, 2008.
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Apr. 26, 2011—“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy, Confronting Empire, 2003
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Apr. 14, 2011—“protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace…those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act.” – Wangari Maathai
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Apr. 14, 2011—“The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Apr. 14, 2011—“You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.” – Nelson Mandela
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Apr. 14, 2011—“The good Earth—we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.” – Kurt Vonnegut, from the book A Man without a Country, 2005