"The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption.... The greenest possible strategy is to mine and to bury, to fly and to tunnel, to search high and low, where the life mostly isn't, and so to leave the edge, the space in the middle, living and green."

-- Peter W. Huber

#Tunnels Quotes #Space Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“The Lord doesn't always remove the sources of stress in our lives...but He's always there and cares for us. We can feel His arms around us on the darkest night.”
“Hollywood has treated me well.”
“The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.”
“Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.”

Source : "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.”
“A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.”
“This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising /Â And falling children, and their friends, /Â And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.”

Source : Gerard Woodward (2012). “The Seacunny”, p.28, Pan Macmillan
“The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.”

Source : R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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