2005"; } // random quote generator, v 1.01, Mark Sealey July 2001 // to alter quotes, add n to array assignment statement and add quotes with incremental subscripts quotes= new makeArray(141); quotes[0] = "There are hundreds of things we can do, easily and economically to improve the conditions of every living thing on this planet
— Denis Hayes"; quotes[1] = "All over the place… there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume
— Naom Chomsky"; quotes[2] = "Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
— Albert Einstein"; quotes[3] = "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding
— Albert Einstein"; quotes[4] = "There is no fundamental difference between humans and.. animals in their mental faculties… [they] manifestly feel pleasure, pain, happiness, and misery
— Charles Darwin"; quotes[5] = "Indifference is a type of violence
— Gandhi"; quotes[6] = "You must be the change that you wish to see in the world
— Gandhi"; quotes[7] = "We are living off the natural capital of the planet, the principal, and not the interest
— David Brower"; quotes[8] = "A public that understands and appreciates our kaleidoscopic Earth can guide communicative scientists and responsible leaders across the globe so that we live attuned to the Earth's natural system of which we are a part
— Jill Schneiderman"; quotes[9] = "I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society
— Dalai Lama"; quotes[10] = "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has
— Margaret Mead"; quotes[11] = "The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy… responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope
— Wendell Berry"; quotes[12] = "Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect ourselves
— Stuart Udall"; quotes[13] = "Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you
— John Muir"; quotes[14] = "The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask
— Nancy Newhall"; quotes[15] = "What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
— Henry David Thoreau"; quotes[16] = "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
— Frank Lloyd Wright"; quotes[17] = "In wilderness I sense the miracle of life
— Charles A. Lindbergh"; quotes[18] = "Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children
— Kenyan Proverb"; quotes[19] = "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise
— Aldo Leopold"; quotes[20] = "Someone who has lost their sense of wonder is dead
— William of Saint Thierry"; quotes[21] = "We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity
— Edward Wilson"; quotes[22] = "The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders
— Edward Abbey"; quotes[23] = "Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles
— Pope John Paul II"; quotes[24] = "Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books
— John Dingell"; quotes[25] = "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin
— Shakespeare"; quotes[26] = "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people
— Franklin Roosevelt"; quotes[27] = "Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe
— John Muir"; quotes[28] = "Gardening, as a cultural activity, matters deeply, not only to the look of our landscape, but also to the wisdom of our thinking about the environment
— Michael Pollan"; quotes[29] = "To move ahead to a restorative economy, the industrial corporations of the world must change to met the world's needs, not the other way around
— Paul Hawken"; quotes[30] = "The Earth is not dying - it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses
— Utah Phillips"; quotes[31] = "You wouldn't ask a bee to opt for a job OR the environment
— David Brower"; quotes[32] = "The economic growth of the WTO… [is] where the rich get richer and our children inherit a toxic, threadbare planet
— David Brower"; quotes[33] = "If you doubt for one minute the… primacy of nature try not breathing for that length of time
— Robert Arthur Lewis"; quotes[34] = "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
— Goethe"; quotes[35] = "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way humans think
— Gregory Bateson"; quotes[36] = "We all live downwind of air pollution
— 1980s bumper sticker"; quotes[37] = "We should treat animals as we would wish them to treat us, were they in our dominant position
— Christine Stevens"; quotes[38] = "The value of biodiversity is more than the sum of its parts
— Bryan Norton"; quotes[39] = "If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes
— Charles Lindbergh"; quotes[40] = "For the first time… everyone is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception to death
— Rachel Carson"; quotes[41] = "For a prudent toxicological policy, a chemical should be considered guilty until proven innocent
— Umberto Saffiotti"; quotes[42] = "No city should be too large for a person to walk out of in a morning
— Cyril Connelly"; quotes[43] = "Environmental democracy is responsible for essentially killing the nuclear power industry
— Barry Commoner"; quotes[44] = "There isn't a government in the world that would have done anything for the environment if it weren't for the citizen groups
— Konrad von Moltke"; quotes[45] = "The coastal zone may be the single most important portion of our planet. The loss of its biodiversity may have repercussions far beyond our worst fears
— G Carleton ray"; quotes[46] = "The fruits belong to all and the land belongs to no-one
— Rousseau"; quotes[47] = "To save every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering
— Aldo Leopold"; quotes[48] = "Materialism simply cannot survive the transition to a sustainable world
— Lester Brown"; quotes[49] = "The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children
— Hindu proverb"; quotes[50] = "Earth is a sacred vessel not to be tampered with or grabbed; to tamper with it is to spoil it. The grasp it is to lose it
— Tao-te Ching"; quotes[51] = "The poetry of Earth is never dead
— Keats"; quotes[52] = "Earth has no sorrow that Earth cannot heal
— John Muir"; quotes[53] = "When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect
— Aldo Leopold"; quotes[54] = "The conservationist's most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate
— Peter Scott"; quotes[55] = "Extinct is forever
— Kurt Benirschke"; quotes[56] = "We are neither left or right; we are in front
— Ronnie Hawkins"; quotes[57] = "Environmentalism may well be the template through which we may finally perceive how power works in our society
— Christopher Manes"; quotes[58] = "There is no social or economic issue today that isn't also, by definition, an environmental one
— Mike Guerrero"; quotes[59] = "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything
— Dostoyevsky"; quotes[60] = "All things in the biosphere have an equal right to live and blossom and reach their own individual forms of unfolding and self-realization
— Bill Devall and George Sessions"; quotes[61] = "Sustainable logging means jobs forever
— Rhona Mahoney"; quotes[62] = "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today
— Chinese proverb"; quotes[63] = "The irony… is that future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxies
— Charles Hitch"; quotes[64] = "Think globally, but act locally
— René Dubos"; quotes[65] = "'Tis a sordid profit that's accompanied by the destruction of Health
— Bernadino Ramazzini"; quotes[66] = "We have changed our environment more quickly than we know how to change ourselves
— Walter Lippmann"; quotes[67] = "Other animals simply adapt to their environment. Our intelligence seems to have outpaced our sense of place, and the result is that we're extremely dangerous
— Peter Mathiessen"; quotes[68] = "Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another
— Juvenal"; quotes[69] = "It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
— Thoreau"; quotes[70] = "One reason why the Central American rainforests seem doomed to disappear is that their destruction takes five cents off the price of an American hamburger
— Catherine Caufield"; quotes[71] = "It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
— Thoreau"; quotes[72] = "Nature is not a temple but a workshop in which humans are the laborers
— Turgenev"; quotes[73] = "In the eyes of Nature we are just another species in trouble
— Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox"; quotes[74] = "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment
— Buckminster Fuller"; quotes[75] = "Most hunters do not really know why they hunt, and some probably would not want to know if it ever occurred to them to wonder
— John Mitchell"; quotes[76] = "The question is not whether we can build a car that won't pollute… [but] whether we can overcome the resistance of the auto industry
— Ralph Nader"; quotes[77] = "It is a spiritual act to try and shut down Dupont
— Randall Hayes"; quotes[78] = "Development is a means of exchanging the indispensable for the superfluous
— The Ecologist"; quotes[79] = "Eco-development… means raising Third World living standards in ways that maintain natural systems and redeveloping richer countries to be more ecologically sound
— Peter Berg"; quotes[80] = "Dictatorships and societies that support an affluent few at the expense of many in poverty have not been good stewards of the Earth
— Peter Berle"; quotes[81] = "Laws change; people die; the land remains
— Abraham Lincoln"; quotes[82] = "Land is immortal for it harbors the mysteries of creation
— Anwar El-Sadat"; quotes[83] = "Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's need but not everyone's greed
— Gandhi"; quotes[84] = "… the chance to find a pasqueflower is a right as inalienable as free speech
— Aldo Leopold"; quotes[85] = "Nature does nothing in vain
— proverb";quotes[91] = "All things come from earth and to earth they all return
— Menander"; quotes[86] = "The evidence of nature is worth more than the arguments of learning
— Ambrose of Milan"; quotes[87] = "Nature has no goale, though shee hath laws
— John Donne"; quotes[88] = "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca"; quotes[89] = "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere, the circumference nowhere
— Pascal"; quotes[90] = "Nature is inexhaustible
— Voltaire"; quotes[91] = "There are no fixtures in nature. The Universe is fluid and volatile
— Emerson"; quotes[92] = "Nature means the sum of all phenomena, together with the causes which produce them; including not only all that happens, but all that is capable of happening
— John Stuart Mill"; quotes[93] = "Nature teaches more than she preaches. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral
— John Burroughs"; quotes[94] = "Nature is not governed except by obeying her
— Francis Bacon"; quotes[95] = "The conquering of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for conquering the self
— Reinhold Niebuhr"; quotes[96] = "The Judeo-Christian idea of… dominating nature must be replaced by the goal of living in harmony with nature
— Paul Ehrlich"; quotes[97] = "Noise: A stench in the ear
— Ambrose Bierce"; quotes[98] = "There is no free society without silence
— Herbert Marcuse"; quotes[99] = "\"Atoms for peace\" and \"Atoms for war\" are Siamese twins
— Hannes Alfven"; quotes[100] = "The best thing you can do for… [the planet] is to junk your present car, buy the biggest new one you can afford, and then don\'t drive it
— quoted, Herman Daly"; quotes[101] = "If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children
— Chinese proverb"; quotes[102] = "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
— Emerson"; quotes[103] = "There is no plant that is unimportant
— Euell Gibbons"; quotes[104] = "All our leaders now call themselves environmentalists. But their brand of environmentalists poses very few challenges to the present system
— Ivan Illich"; quotes[105] = "Conservation must replace consumption as the driving force of our economy
— Petra Kelly"; quotes[106] = "Pollution doesn\'t carry a passport
— Thomas McMillan"; quotes[107] = "The bird of war is not the eagle but the stork
— Charles F Potter"; quotes[108] = "The goal of nature is zero population growth, and only… [humans violate] that goal
— John Eisenberg"; quotes[109] = "No fundamental human value would be endangered by a leveling off of demographic growth
— Donella Meadows"; quotes[110] = "Development is the best contraceptive
— Anonymous"; quotes[111] = "[Deep ecology means] appreciating life quality… rather than adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living
— Arne Neass"; quotes[112] = "To me a minimum quality of life is a wood thrush
— Barbara Dowell"; quotes[113] = "If you're not recycling, you're throwing it all away
— Environmental Defense Fund"; quotes[114] = "When the soil is gone,… [people] must go and the process does not take long
— Theodore Roosevelt"; quotes[115] = "The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself
— Franklin D Roosevelt"; quotes[116] = "If you cut a hole in the soil you have damaged the Earth. You must therefore be certain it is necessary
— Taos Indian saying "; quotes[117] = "Sunlight leaves the earth unravished… it leaves people unmutated, convivial, even illuminated. Above all, it respects the limits that are always with us on a little planet
— Amory B Lovins"; quotes[118] = "The use of solar energy has not yet been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun
— Ralph Nader"; quotes[119] = "We owe our lives to the sun… how is it that we feel no gratitude?
— Lewis Thomas"; quotes[120] = "Some of our landfills are now richer in resources than some of our mines
— Denis Hayes"; quotes[121] = "The system of nature… tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, and self-cleaning. Not so with technology
— E. F. Schumacher"; quotes[122] = "Except during the nine months before drawing breath, no-one manages… [their] affairs as well as a tree does
— George Bernard Shaw"; quotes[123] = "Trees are earth\'s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven
— Tagore"; quotes[124] = "First I thought I was fighting for the rubber trappers, then I thought I was fighting for the Amazon, then I realized I was fighting for humanity
— Chico Mendes"; quotes[125] = "Destroying rain forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal
— Edward O. Wilson"; quotes[126] = "Wilful waste makes woeful want
— Scottish proverb"; quotes[127] = "The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives
— Native American proverb"; quotes[128] = "The sewer is the conscience of the city
— Victor Hugo"; quotes[129] = "Civilization began around wetlands; today\'s civilization has every reason to leave them wet and wild
— Edward Maltby"; quotes[130] = "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
— Edward Abbey"; quotes[131] = "The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness
— John Muir"; quotes[132] = "The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit
— Joseph Wood Krutch"; quotes[133] = "Wilderness is the bank for genetic variability of the earth
— David Brower"; quotes[134] = "The wilderness holds answers to questions… [we] have not yet learned to ask
— Nancy Newhall"; quotes[135] = "To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs
— Aldo Leopold"; quotes[136] = "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous
— Aristotle"; quotes[137] = "Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony
— Thomas Merton"; quotes[138] = "Birds are the greatest musicians to inhabit our planet
— Olivier Messiaen"; quotes[139] = "The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures
— Mechthild of Magdeburg"; quotes[130] = "Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they\'re only animals"; facts=new makeArray(97); facts[0] = "Incandescent light bulbs convert only 5% of the energy they consume into light"; facts[1] = "The automobile engine uses only 10% of the energy it consumes to move it"; facts[2] = "The US nuclear energy industry would quickly go out of business if it were not for government subsidies"; facts[3] = "In the last 100 years four times as many resources have been used up as in all time before then"; facts[4] = "The illegal trade in wildlife is the third most lucrative international crime – after drugs and guns"; facts[5] = "Rainforests cover less than 2% of the Earth but 40-50% of all living things inhabit them"; facts[6] = "If the Earth were the size of an egg, all the water on it would fit into a single droplet"; facts[7] = "Since 1960 more than 25% of all Central American rainforests have been destroyed to produce beef for consumption in the richer, northern markets"; facts[8] = "If the world were the size of an ordinary desktop globe viewed at arm's length, no trace of the biosphere (which has evolved – apparently from so little – into billions of creatures would be visible"; facts[9] = "US Governor of Washington Dixy Lee Ray said in 1977: \'A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating because 300 people choke to death on food every year\'."; facts[10] = "A Mobil advertisement in March 1979 read: \'What will it take to get on with splitting atoms instead of hairs\'. 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facts[23] = "Consumers and industry in the United States waste enough aluminum to build the commercial air fleet every three months"; facts[24] = "Consumers and industry in the United States waste enough glass to fill the Sears Tower in Chicago every two weeks"; facts[25] = "Consumers and industry in the United States waste enough iron and steel to continuously supply all current car manufacture"; facts[26] = "Former US president Ronald Reagan said \'a tree is a tree — how many more do you need to look at?\'"; facts[27] = "In Brazil there are ten cultivable acres for every Brazilian family"; facts[28] = "The average American car driven an average yearly distance (10,000 miles) releases its own weight of carbon into the atmosphere in that time"; facts[29] = "As much is spent (US$422bn) on weapons and soldiers every 12 months by western industrial nations as is owed by the world's 47 poorest and most indebted nations"; facts[30] = "Exxon made the same amount of profit (US$16.9 bn) in 2000 as is \'owed\' in total by a dozen sub-Saharan developing countries"; facts[31] = "The annual per capita income (US$110) of each person in Zaire is less than half the amount which each resident of Zaire would have to raise to pay off that country\'s debt to foreign creditors"; facts[32] = "The world is losing two farm animal breeds each week; 1,350 breeds face extinction"; facts[33] = "During the summer of 1997 smog pollution was associated with over 50,000 respiratory-related hospital admissions, over 150,000 emergency visits and over 6 million asthma attacks in the eastern US"; facts[34] = "Up to 38% of the freshwater ecosystems in the United States are not fit to swim in or fish"; facts[35] = "Grisly bears have been eliminated form 98% of their habitat south of Canada"; facts[36] = "Six of the first eight months of 1998 were the warmest since records began (in 1866)"; facts[37] = "In 1900 there were 100,000 tigers in the world, and today there are fewer than 6,000"; facts[38] = "More than half of the wetlands in the US that existed 250 years ago (about 100 million acres) have been destroyed, with many thousands of more lost each year"; facts[39] = "Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 1995 reached the highest level ever recorded (9,000 square kilometers), an area equivalent to New Jersey and Connecticut"; facts[40] = "Water system regulations and drainage for agriculture and urban development have been the major cause of loss of over 50% of the wetlands in countries all over the world including the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Thailand, Niger, Chad, Tanzania, India, Vietnam, and Italy"; facts[41] = "In the past 200 years, the United States has lost 50% of its wetlands, 90% of its northwestern old-growth forests, 99% of its tall grass prairie, and up to 490 species of native plants and animals"; facts[42] = "More people are alive today than have died since the emergence of Homo sapiens"; facts[43] = "New York gets 99% of its transportation energy › and half its air pollution › from petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel"; facts[44] = "The hottest year ever recorded on Earth: 1997"; facts[45] = "In the last 400 years in the United States more than 500 species have become extinct. 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In the US\' most congested cities, the waste amounts to more than 100 gallons per driver every year"; facts[49] = "If Mexico City, New York, Sao Paulo, and Santiago employed technologies that already exist to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 64,000 premature deaths and 37 million lost workdays could be prevented over the next 20 years"; facts[50] = "Air pollution from traffic causes more deaths than do traffic accidents"; facts[51] = "Each day 100 plant species are lost worldwide"; facts[52] = "In the United Kingdom alone an average of 40 animals a day are killed for military \'research\'"; facts[53] = "Polluters Exxon-Mobil makes about US$1.5 million profit each hour"; facts[54] = "There are more tigers held as \'pets\' in the United States than there are wild tigers in the rest of the world"; facts[55] = "A large cruise liner moves just six inches for each gallon of fuel burnt"; facts[56] = "Western multinationals pay an estimated US$80bn a year in bribes to corrupt foreign governments — enough to eradicate world poverty"; facts[57] = "Nearly 40 million animals a year are stolen from Brazil's forests; illegal traffickers earn over US$1 billion"; facts[58] = "Nearly 50,000 people a year are killed as a result of hydro-meteorological disasters"; facts[59] = "Western multinationals pay US$80 billion annually in bribes to corrupt foreign governments — enough to eradicate world poverty"; facts[60] = "Four supermarkets sell 75% of all UK fresh produce; just 20 buyers determine how 25,000 farmers farm and the population eats"; facts[61] = "The US is 5% of the world\'s population yet produces 72% of all hazardous waste"; facts[62] = "The US is 5% of the world\'s population yet consumes 33% of all paper"; facts[63] = "The US is 5% of the world\'s population yet consumes 25% of all energy"; facts[64] = "In the US one person a minute dies from diseases induced by air pollution"; facts[65] = "Half of US lakes and rivers are officially unsafe to swim in"; facts[66] = "The amount of energy avoidably wasted each year in the US is twice that which drilling in Alaska would yield"; facts[67] = "The US could cut energy consumption by 45% by 2030 using efficiency measures available now"; facts[68] = "The US could create 773,000 new jobs by 2010 by using efficiency measures available now"; facts[69] = "The US could save consumers $1 trillion by 2010 by using efficiency measures available now"; facts[70] = "Every year eight pounds of harmful pesticides for every child, woman and man are used in the US"; facts[71] = "In 1996 one in ten of all tap water systems in the US violated treatment or contaminant standards"; facts[72] = "80% of Nigeria's coastline is threatened by climate change-related rising sea levels threatening up to one million people"; facts[73] = "Average annual global rainfall increased by 10% during the 20th century because of global warming, leading to more floods"; facts[74] = "Snow cover on land has diminished by 10% since the 1960s because of global warming"; facts[75] = "Four out of five of all the world's beaches are eroding because of the effects global warming"; facts[76] = "25% of the Earth's coral reefs have been destroyed because of the effects global warming"; facts[77] = "Humans put 16 millions tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day, equivalent to 150 major volcanic eruptions a year"; facts[78] = "25% of CO2 released into the atmosphere is in the United States"; facts[79] = "Only 1 in 10,000 products is designed to respect environmental needs"; facts[80] = "12% of the world's 9,900 bird species are threatened with extinction — nearly all because of human activity"; facts[81] = "For every 1 lb of shrimp taken from the seas 5 lbs of marine life is killed"; facts[82] = "Half of all coral reefs (home to 25% of all known marine species) could be lost in the next 50 years"; facts[83] = "One ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees"; facts[84] = "One ton of recycled paper saves over three cubic yards of landfill space"; facts[85] = "One ton of recycled paper saves over 7,000 gallons of fresh water"; facts[86] = "One ton of recycled paper saves over 4,000 kilowatt hours of energy"; facts[87] = "Nearly 700 million birds a year are exposed to agricultural pesticides in the United States; one tenth of these are killed"; facts[88] = "In the past 200 years over 100 bird species have been exterminated"; facts[89] = "Over 1,000 species of birds are threatened by extinction within the next 100 years"; facts[90] = "With global warming has come a 500% increase in \'natural disasters\' in the United States in the last 30 years"; facts[91] = "As many people (24,000) die daily from preventable hunger as die in six years by acts of terrorism"; facts[92] = "As a result of industrial agriculture only nine crops account for three quarters of all plants eaten by humans"; facts[93] = "Almost one and a half billion tons of untreated sewage is dumped in the Mediterranean Sea alone every day"; facts[94] = "Humans now appropriate half of all freshwater in the world"; facts[95] = "One Norwegian boat can catch 30 times as many fish as there are Norwegians in one year alone"; facts[96] = "Air pollution kills ten times more people in the UK annually than do road traffic accidents"; 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