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9 quotes by Gaylord Nelson

Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism.
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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.

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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental 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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

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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... →

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