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Éva Federmayer, Dr. habil.

"If, as environmental philosophers contend, western metaphysics and ethics need revision before we can address today's environmental problems then environmental crisis involves a crisis of the imagination the amelioration of which depends upon finding better ways of imagining nature and humanity's relationship to it." (Lawrence Buell)

"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal? " (Rachel Carson)