"Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims"

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Source : Edmund Hillary (1984). “Ecology 2000: the changing face of earth”, Michael Joseph

Edmund Hillary

#Love Quotes #Family Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“I tell the stories that are of interest to me.”
“My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.”
“You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.”
“I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.”
“Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.”
“I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that”
“We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up”
“Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.”

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