"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."

-- E. O. Wilson

#Choices Quotes #Growth Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.”
“I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.”
“You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!”
“Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .”

Source : R. S. Thomas, “A Welsh Testament”
“The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.”
“If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.”
“Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical.”

Source : "'Lama'at' ('Divine Flashes')". Poem by Fakhruddin Iraqi,
“I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.”

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