It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

David R. Brower
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  1. Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

  2. The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

  3. I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

  4. There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

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