"Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics."

-- Ted Nordhaus

#Environment Quotes #Needed Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.”

Source : "'I dressed as Borat and Ali G fans had no idea it was me': Sacha Baron Cohen on enjoying his anonymity" by Rob Bleaney, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.
“It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply”
“Growing up, I was always the small guy.”
“Don't read to remember; read to realize.”
“Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.”

Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 11 (1862)
“If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts ... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you.”
“The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.”
“Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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