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"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development."

Anna Lindh on Environmental

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• "The environment is everything that isn't me."

  Albert Einstein on Environmental

• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

  Margaret Mead on Environmental

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

  John Muir on Environmental

• "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

  Henry David Thoreau on Environmental

• "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."

  John Muir on Environmental

More quotes by Anna Lindh

• "States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making."

• "The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."

• "In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."

• "One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."

• "The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community."