Gaylord Nelson Quotes

• We must recognize that we’re all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Consequences, Serious

• The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Environmental, Issue, Importance

• The issues are by some geometric number – 100 or 200 or 500 – times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

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  Topics in Appreciation

  Tags in President

• Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in President

• Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn’t even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Environmental, Problems, Reason

• In the state of Wisconsin it’s mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Teachers, Environmental

• If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we’re the only species that lives here, we’ll create a disaster for ourselves.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disaster

• I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Combustion, Engine, Transportation

• Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Concerned, Environmental, Issues

Gaylord Nelson (9)

Birth:	4th June, 1916
Death:	3rd July, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Gaylord Anton Nelson was born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism. In 1942, he received a J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced law.

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