Follow some of the recent environmental news stories that discuss key conservation and environmental concerns.

Environmental News January — February 2020

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“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
— Chris Maser

Environmental News September 2018

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"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
— John Muir

Environmental News March 27 - July 31, 2018

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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
— William Ruckelshaus

Environmental News April 12 - May 14, 2018

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"The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."
— Lady Bird Johnson

Environmental News March 26 - April 16, 2018

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"The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world."
— Gaylord Nelson

Environmental News March 8 - March 26, 2018

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"We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
— Henry David Thoreau

Environmental News January 2 - February 14, 2018

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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
— David Attenborough

Environmental News August 1 to August 10, 2017

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"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself."
— Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist

Environmental News April 6 to May 23, 2017

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‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’
— W.H. Auden

Environmental News January 12 to January 24, 2017

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"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

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