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Continue to ChatThose people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism. - Richard Rodriguez from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/those-people-who-say-that-america-is-finite-are-some-sense-right-the-environmental-movement-for-example-has-a