"The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Helene D. Gayle

#Jobs Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Degradation Quotes

“From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.”
“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.”

Source : Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).
“Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.”
“One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.”
“To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.47
“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”

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