"The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in any species' survival. We need to be listening to our environment - in other words, restoring the quiet - not just to our natural areas, but also to towns like Portland, Maine."

-- Gordon Hempton

#Priorities Quotes #Listening Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
“Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.”
“[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.”
“Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.”
“There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.”
“I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.”
“My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.”
“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”

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