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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
作为一个国家,我们越节能,就越不需要开发额外的能源。
— Lamar S. Smith 拉马尔·史密斯
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更多好句 ↗Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里,物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
E. F. Schumacher
舒马赫
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
在大多数情况下,我们不知道社会上的失败和成功在多大程度上是由遗传造成的,又在多大程度上是由环境造成的。但是环境是两者中比较容易改善的。
J. B. S. Haldane
约翰·伯顿·桑德森·霍尔丹
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
如果我们要改善环境质量,唯一的办法就是让每个人都参与进来。
Richard Rogers
理查德·罗杰斯
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.
我们假设所有的东西都变得更有效率了,从直接意义上说这是正确的;我们的生活在很多方面都变得更好。但这种改善是通过对自然资源的大量低效利用而实现的。
Paul Hawken
保罗·霍肯
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
上帝眷顾着这些树木,把它们从干旱、疾病、雪崩、一千次暴风雨和洪水中拯救出来。但他不能把他们从愚人手中救出来。
John Muir
约翰·穆尔
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
学习经济学的目的不是为了获得一套现成的经济问题的答案,而是学习如何避免被经济学家所欺骗。
Joan Robinson
琼·罗宾逊