"Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change."

-- Nancy Knowlton

#Ocean Quotes #Habitat Quotes #Damage Quotes

“My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.”
“Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.”
“Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.”
“You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.”
“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
“Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.136, Spectra
“Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.”
“The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.”

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