Asian Geographic Junior Issue 02/2017 No. 44 | Page 3

Opening Lines
“You must be t he
change you wish
to see in the world”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Ever y drop in t he
ocean counts”
– Yoko Ono
“Sadly, it’s
much easier to
create a desert
than a forest”
– James Lovelock
“When we try to
pick out anything
by itsel f, we find it
hitched to everything
else in the universe”
– John Muir
“On c limate c hange,
we of ten don’t f ul l y
appreciate that it is a
probl em. We t hink
it is a problem waiting
to happen”
– Kofi Annan
“You can wreck one
rainforest t hen move,
drain one area of
resources and move
onto anot her,
but climate change
is global”
– David Attenborough
“T he Ear t h does not
bel ong to us: We
bel ong to t he Ear t h”
– Mar lee Matlin
“I f you cut down a
forest, it doesn’t
mat ter how many
sawmills you have
if t here are no
more trees”
– Susan George
“If all mankind
were to disappear,
the world would
regenerate back
to the rich state
of equilibrium that
existed 10,000
years ago. If insects
were to vanish, the
environment would
collapse into chaos” e
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– E.O. Wilson
“This is a question of
humanity. Our world is
our home. There’s no
ot her planet where we
may move or shif t”
– The Dalai Lama
“Peopl e need to be
cautious because
any t hing buil t by man
can be dest royed by
Mot her Nat ure”
– Russell Honor
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