Alfred W. Crosby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't know how not to get the flu.
-- Alfred W. Crosby

#Flu
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
-- Alfred W. Crosby

#Reality #Two #Numbers
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.
-- Alfred W. Crosby

#Two #Car #Decision
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
-- Alfred W. Crosby

#Hangover #Civilization #Energy
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.
-- Alfred W. Crosby

#Population #Crash #Climate Change

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.
I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous.
I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.
We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.
When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me.
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.
The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

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