"Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year."

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Source : William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

William H. Calvin

#Years Quotes #Growth Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Women read each other at a single glance.”
“My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".”
“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”
“A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.”
“I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.”

Source : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.”
“The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.”

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