Peter Gleick famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.
-- Peter Gleick -
It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.
-- Peter Gleick -
This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.
-- Peter Gleick -
Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
-- Peter Gleick
-
An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.
-
Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
-
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
-
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
-
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
-
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
-
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
-
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
-
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
-
My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’
You may also like:
-
Andrew Revkin
Fiction writer -
Carl Safina
Author -
Donella Meadows
Environmental Writer -
Edith Widder
Oceanographer -
Gavin Schmidt
Investigator -
Gil Garcetti
American Politician -
James Gleick
Author -
James Hansen
Professor -
Jeffrey Skoll
Engineer -
Jessica Yu
Film director -
Joseph J. Romm
Author -
Lester R. Brown
Environmentalist -
Maude Barlow
Author -
Michael E. Mann
Author -
Michael J Cohen
Author -
Sandra Postel
Expert -
Scott Mandia
Professor -
Thomas Homer-Dixon
University Professor