Quotes
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Aleksandra Mir
"National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it." --
Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
Aleksandra Mir
#Zoos Quotes
#Drama Quotes
#Sea Quotes
“One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.”
“I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”
“We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.”
“If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.”
“The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.”
“You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.”
“Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.”
“CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature....While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.”