"...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation..."

-- Andrew Revkin

#Baby Quotes #Kids Quotes #Light Quotes

“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”
“A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.”
“I know how important it is to have people who believe in you even when you don't believe in yourself.”
“There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.”
“I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.”
“In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1890). “Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890”
“Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.”
“On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds.”

Source : Harold Gatty (2013). “Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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