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We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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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

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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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