„The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.“

— Rachel Carson, Context: The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics. Letter to the editor, Washington Post (1953); quoted in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 99

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„We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.“

— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Context: Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

„The nation thus situated, and enjoying forest, mineral, and agricultural resources unequalled, if endowed also with moral energies adequate to the achievement of great enterprises, and favored with a Government adapted to their character and condition, must command the empire of the seas, which alone is real empire.“

— William H. Seward American lawyer and politician 1801 - 1872

„The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.“

— Wendell Berry, Given

„Heavy, clayey soils hold more water with less nutrient-leaching. The structural aggregates of heavy soils retain nutrients but allow water to drain around them. Light soils are extremely sensitive to excess water.“

— Ken Kern American writer
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„The fact is that it is the land that has made us all Americans, and the moral is that it is the land which must be preserved to save our Americanism. Soil erosion, forest exploitation, and wildlife destruction are more insidious anti-American activities than Communism, Fascism, or foreign propagandizing.“

— Howard Zahniser American environmentalist 1906 - 1964
"Indoors and Out", Nature Magazine number 33 (May 1940) p. 255, quoted in Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever (2005) p. 45

„The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.“

— J. Paul Getty American industrialist 1892 - 1976

„The certain way to victory... lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort... combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...“

— Yoshijirō Umezu Japanese general 1882 - 1949
Quoted in "Suicide Squads: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II" - Page 267 - by Richard O'Neill - History - 1981.

„There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.“

— Eugene V. Debs American labor and political leader 1855 - 1926
Context: There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric. Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.

„In the early days our forefathers could cut down a forest or exhaust the fertility of a farm and then blithely move to a new forest or a new farm... The highest concept of statesmanship was to make it possible for the eager, aggressive pioneer to possess, to despoil and then repeat the process indefinitely.... [Shortsided and unchecked greed resulted in] denuded forests, floods, droughts, a disappearing water table, erosion, a less stable and equable climate, a vanishing wildlife.“

— Harold L. Ickes American politician 1874 - 1952
as quoted by Douglas H. Strong, Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists (1988) Ch. 7 "Harold Ickes," p.157

„The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal“

— Michael Foot British politician 1913 - 2010
House of Commons speech (1974)

„Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.“

— Steve Irwin Australian environmentalist and television personality 1962 - 2006
Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3)

„I believe the police are upholding the law. They are not upholding the Government. This is not a dispute between miners and Government. This is a dispute between miners and miners. They have in their constitution the right to have a ballot. They have not been able to have a national ballot yet. Many of them have had local ballots. This is a dispute between miners and miners. It is some of the miners who are trying to stop other miners going to work. It is the police who are in charge of upholding the law... The police have been wonderful.“

— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (9 April 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105538 on the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike

„We have not put our trust in Kings; let us not put it in natural resources, but grasp the truth that exhaustless wealth lies in the latent and as yet undeveloped capacities of individuals, of corporations, of States.“

— Harrington Emerson American efficiency engineer and business theorist 1853 - 1931
p. 164; ; Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003) Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 80

„The richest soil that was ever prepared would not grow a single blade of grass or the tiniest Weed if that soil were absolutely dry.... There must be water in the soil to dissolve out and transfer its elements in order that the rootlets of the plant shall be able to make the slightest use of these elements.... But... a plant may grow and thrive for a time quite without the presence of soil if its roots are placed in water.... some of the richest soils in the world are those that are absolutely barren and fully merit the designation of desert lands because water is lacking“

— Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926
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„War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.“

— Kenneth N. Waltz American political scientist and international relations theoretician 1924 - 2013
Chapter VIII, Conclusion, p. 224

„The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Context: The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these". Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinite metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them. The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.