"Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do."

-- Edith Widder

#Doctors Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes #Support Systems Quotes

“A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.326, University of Chicago Press
“I'm going to disappear again.”
“A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.”
“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”

Source : "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.
“We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.”
“Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.”
“One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.”
“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.”

Source : "From pots to politics" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.

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