Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

— Thomas Edison, The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation (1910)

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=1bE2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP15

Quoted by Elbert Hubbard in The Fra, April 1910.

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