"GMOs could really land us in trouble"

-- Colin Tudge

#Land Quotes #Gmos Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.”
“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”

Source : "Rachmaninoff's Recollections". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, p. 155, 1934.
“Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.”
“When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your futureâ€¦ Thatâ€™s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. Thatâ€™s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. Iâ€™m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.”
“The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.”
“Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.”
“It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...”
“Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.”

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