"It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Annalee Newitz

#Past Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Carbon Cycle Quotes

“Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?”
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.”
“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.”
“Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1960). “On the Beach”
“It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.”
“Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.”
“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”
“I think I did marry a marvelous man.”

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