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Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.
Friedrich Engels
The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at.
George Bush Sr, then Vice-President, on the Alaska pipeline 
Själv tror jag att hela mänsklighetens historia har bestått av en kamp mot naturen, snarare än ett liv i samklang med den; detta gäller i hög grad för jordbruket. Ett naturenligt jordbruk i någon absolut mening är därför en omöjlighet, eftersom jordbruket definitionsmässigt är ett sätt att tvinga jorden att avkasta det vi vill ha i stället för det den annrs skulle avkasta.
Torbjörn Fagerström, professor i teoretisk ekologi
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why toxic wastes should be exported to Third World countries
America's lands may be ravaged as a result of the actions of the environmentalists.
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Reagan
When you see one redwood, you've seen them all.
President Ronald Reagan
Det är svårt att inte av hela sitt hjärta önska att all den förunderliga mångfald, med ömsom vidunderligt vackra, ömsom mer eller mindre bisarra livsformer, som är så typisk för regnskogen skall få finnas kvar, även om man är en fullblodsdarwinist. Så det finns egentligen inget behov av att förvetenskapliga argumenten för att bevara regnskogen.
Torbjörn Fagerström, professor i teoretisk ekologi
When we should have been planning switches to smaller, more fuel efficient, lighter cars in the late 1960s, in response to a growing demand in the marketplace, GM refused because `we make more money on big cars.’ It mattered not that customers wanted the smaller cars, or that a national balance of payments deficit was being built... Refusal to enter the small car market when the profits were better on bigger cars, despite the needs of the public and the national economy, was not an isolated case of corporate insensitivity. It was typical.
John DeLorian
The idea that businesses will be driven to bankruptcy if strict environmental standards are adopted is the same tired line that has been brought up again and again since workers first organized to improve working conditions. It was brought up when child labor was eliminated, when the minimum wage was introduced, when Social Security and Unemployment Insurance were developed.
Leonard Woodcock 1976
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
President Ronald Reagan
I don't believe a tree is a tree and if you've seen one you've seen them all.
President Ronald Reagan
Kapitalism kan inte 'övertygas' att begränsa tillväxten mer än att en mänsklig varelse kan 'övertygas' att sluta andas. Försök att implementera 'grön' kapitalism, att göra den 'ekologisk' är dömda av systemets natur ty det är ett system som kräver oändlig tillväxt
Murray Bookchin
För att locka företag som ditt har vi jämnat berg med marken, kalhuggit djungel, fyllt igen träsk, lett om floder, flyttat städer - allt för att det ska bli lättare för dig och ditt företag att göra affärer här.
Filippiniska staten i en annons i tidningen Fortune
The exploitation of man by man and the brutal exploitation of nature are, in fact, one and the same practice. From the moment the market system minimizes the fruits of the earth by seeing them only in terms of the fruits of labour the market system treats nature as its slave.
Raoul Vaneigem
There shouldn't be anything left on the ground. We log to infinity. Because we need it. It's ours. It's out there and we need it all. Now.
Harry Merlo, CEO Louisiana-Pacific
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed
Mahatma Gandhi
Vi måste stanna upp och fråga oss: hur mycket ren luft behöver vi?
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler
En miljökamp vägledd av ädelkulturell mystik och andlighet får lika svårt att frigöra sig från kapitalismens tvingande omständigheter som fackliga strävanden i konkurrensens och lönsamhetens namn.
Mikael Nyberg
Business knows no pity, and cares for justice only when justice is seen to be better policy. If it had power to control the elements, it would grasp in its iron clutches the waters, sunshine and air and resell them by measure, and at exorbitant prices to the millions of famished men, women and children.
W A Duncan
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan on redwoods, 28 April 1966
Structured around a competitive struggle for accumulation, capitalism's blind unrelenting drive for growth is to the biosphere what a cancerous tumor is to an organism. Capitalism will destroy the ecological life-basis that sustains it just as cancer destroys the organism that sustains it.
Howard Hawkins
Every single environmental measure should have a provision in it for the protection of a worker's income and benefits. That would go a long way toward undermining the jobs versus environment argument. As it is now, the companies pick up the issue and run with it.
Tony Mazzocchi, former V.P. of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, 1978
The environment is man’s first right.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria
If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all.
Ronald Reagan, US President
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