If I could go back to a point ...

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
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Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.
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Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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