"Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography."

-- Carolyn Merchant

#Issues Quotes #Insightful Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
“All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.”
“The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.”
“We were kingâ€™s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.â€ â€œAre you saying you are monsters?â€ â€œI am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne”
“I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.”
“Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.23, Frog Books
“Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.”
“My trademark saying is probably â€œVAS HAPPENIN?!â€”

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