“Science is--or should be--the greenest force of all.”

—  Kim Stanley Robinson

As quoted in "Heroes of the Environment 2008" http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841779_1841803,00.html in Time (24 September 2008)

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