"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."

-- Gaylord Nelson

#Issues Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Franklin Quotes

“Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.”
“New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.”
“Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.”
“I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.”
“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.”
“The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.”
“Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.”

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