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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

— Orison Swett Marden

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

— Ellsworth Huntington

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

— Ma Jun

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

— Stephen Hawking

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

— David Attenborough

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

— Ma Jun

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

— Pat Cadigan

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

— Louis Bacon

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

— Josie Maran

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

— David Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

— Duncan Sheik