Leaders and Thinkers from History
Most men it seems to me, do not care for nature, and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live for a stated sum. Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, 1887
Isn't that cute, he didn't imagine chlorofluorocarbons creating a hole in the Ozone layer or CO2 melting the ice caps.
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