"All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever."

-- Gaylord Nelson

#War Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.”
“I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,”
“There is no story unless you've written it.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.273, Pan Macmillan
“The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.”
“Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A holiday in a new dressÂ—can earth offer anything more enchanting?”
“I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.”
“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”

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