"Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space."

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Source : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

Ronald Wright

#Dirty Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.”
“There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.”
“Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”
“Can you feel the steam heat coming from my undercarriage?”
“The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org
“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,”

Source : Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

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