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"We must learn to look at Nature, at Creation, as something sacred of which we humans are only a part-or we will have no future. We need a new, actually very old, holistic ethics, an ethics of reverence for life in all its forms and manifestations."

 

Lutzenberger, an ecologist and former Brazilian Minister of the environment, is one of the principal founders and most outspoken advocates of the environmental movement. He was Brazil's first internationally known environmental activist. In 1988 Lutzenberger was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, known as "the alternative Nobel Prize."

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