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" Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. "

Loren Eiseley
" If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. "

Loren Eiseley
" It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. "

Loren Eiseley
" Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. "

Loren Eiseley
" One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. "

Loren Eiseley
" One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. "

Loren Eiseley
" Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. "

Loren Eiseley
" A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. "

Garrett Hardin
" A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. "

Garrett Hardin
" A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. "

Garrett Hardin
" An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. "

Garrett Hardin
" Because of previous failures in prophecy, it takes courage to assert that a desired technical solution is not possible. "

Garrett Hardin
" But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. "

Garrett Hardin
" But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. "

Garrett Hardin
" But, in terms of the practical problems that we must face in the next few generations with the foreseeable technology, it is clear that we will greatly increase human misery if we do not, during the immediate future, assume that the world available to the terrestrial human population is finite. "

Garrett Hardin
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