Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  • -- Garrett Hardin 加勒特·哈丁

此外,从生态原则推导出的实用建议威胁着商业的既得利益;这些投资所产生的财政和政治权力有时应被用来压制环境影响研究,这并不令人惊讶。

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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

除非你在你的国家变得更加警惕,检查垄断的精神和对独家特权的渴望,否则你最终会发现……你对自己最大利益的控制权已经落入这些公司手中。

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

我成长在一个生态意识迅速发展的时代。人们谈论大沼泽地是如何维持生命的,那是一个需要清算的时期。当我还是个孩子的时候,我总是试图调和它。

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

旧金山在提供重要的、充满活力的、生态可持续的城市雨棚和城市开放空间方面落后于其他社区。

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

战争的自然原则是:以最小的伤害自己,最大的伤害敌人;这当然要靠策略来实现。

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

所有的战争都会结束,至少是暂时的。但国家获得的权力依然存在;政治权力永不退让。

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

我们都生活在某些我们称之为原则的懦弱的保护之中。