William Vogt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
-- William Vogt

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Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
-- William Vogt

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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

William Vogt famous quotes

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