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Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Decent
Environment
Persons
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Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Courses
Outdoorsman
Teddy
Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Concerned
Environmental Issues
Franklin
Issues
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
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The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Life
Nature
Fate
Issues
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We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Damage
Done
Giving
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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Ocean
Air
Country
Lakes
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Conservation
Culture
Important
Issues
Environmental Issue
Ethic
Issue
Lack
Mentioned
Rarely
The Most Important
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We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Serious
Web Of Life
World
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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Species
Life World Must
Consequences
Anytime
Extinguish
Recognize
Web
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The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Men
Grandchildren
Sacrifice
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If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Addresses
Environment
Issues
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If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Disaster
Species
Address
Issue
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The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Appreciated
Complicated
Geometric
Issues
Numbers
Today
Today More Than
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
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Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Cost
Kind
Splendid
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There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Earth Day
Needs
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Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Animal
Believe
Years
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Teacher
Giving
School
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Wisconsin
Teachers
First Grade
Grade
Sciences
Social Sciences
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I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Cities
Combustion
Disappear
Electrical
Electrical Power
Mass
Next
Streets
Thinking
Thirty
Transportation
Engine
Internal
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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Atmosphere
Chemicals
Years
Years Ago
Condition
Exist
Hazardous
Introduced
Loads
Planet
Wastes
Worse
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Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Air
Goal
Water
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It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Environment
Grassroots
Political
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There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Running
Air
America
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Issues
Political Will
Understanding
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Ocean
Rivers
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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.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Air
Soil
Water
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The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Government
People
Support
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If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Nature
Community
Long
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The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Country
Immigration
Issues
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
War
Past
Years
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...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Country
Dark
Sleep
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As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?
Gaylord Nelson / Former United States Senator
Country
Issues
Organization
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