Quotes
Authors
Peter Dickens
"For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another." --
Source : Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.15, Temple University Press
Peter Dickens
#People Quotes
#Creative Quotes
#Elements Quotes
“Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.”
“Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.”
“The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative”
“Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”
Source : Simon Barnes (2011). “How to be a Bad Birdwatcher: To the Greater Glory of Life”, p.86, Short Books
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
“The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.”
“Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.”
Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.”