Quotes
Authors
Anthony D. Barnosky
"We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop." --
Source : Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.213, Island Press
Anthony D. Barnosky
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“In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.”
“There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.”
Source : Source: strandmag.com
“The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.”
“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”
Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing
“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.”
Source : William T. Wiley, Graham William John Beal, John Perrault (1979). “Wiley Territory”
“That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it out into the world.”
“I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.”
